11 Fantastic Pieces Of Fiction From 2016 You Need To Read
Looking for a good read? Here is some of the best fiction we published in 2016.
An excerpt from Moonglow by Michael Chabon
"'Have a look, Shunk Street,' she said. She hoisted the hem of the tartan robe. She opened her legs and spread them wide. The pale band of belly, the shock of dark fur, the pink of her labia endured in his memory, flying like a flag, until he died. 'On the house.'"
Learn more about Michael Chabon's novel Moonglow here.
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"The Arctic Lizard" by Etgar Keret
"They set up the 14+ exactly one year after Trump was elected to his third term. America was still licking its wounds from the war in Mexico. Honestly? No one thought it would be that rough."
Learn more about Etgar Keret here.
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"If A Book Is Locked There’s Probably A Good Reason For That Don’t You Think" by Helen Oyeyemi
"Also — also, while you were looking for pen and paper the diary has been unfolding. Not growing, exactly, but it's sitting upright on your tabletop and seems to fill or absorb the air around it so that the air turns this way and that, like pages. In fact the book is like a hand and you, your living room and everything in it are pages being turned this way and that."
Learn more about Helen Oyeyemi's short story collection What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours here.
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"Twentieth" by Lindsay Hunter
"We’d fantasized about showing up at our 20th high school reunion with that vengeful kind of fitness, perfect lipstick and interesting hair, open-toed shoes and not a corn to be seen. But alas. The point was that none of us was perfect. Neither, now, was Diane."
Learn more about Lindsay Hunter here.
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