The Best American Short Stories 2022

A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.

This volume gathers contemporary short stories that confront sudden reckoning, intimate crisis, and fragile connection. Lauren Groff follows a bruised mother fleeing an abusive policeman across country roads in an old Dodge.

An Istanbul alley yields discarded violins and cellos to a sanitation worker who secretly builds an attic orchestra. Héctor Tobar places a qu...