Best Debut Short Stories 2021: The Pen America Dau Prize POLITICAL THRILLER No one explains to us

No one explains to us how love works (except maybe movies)

Tautly wound and expertly crafted

A member of the emperor's secret intelligence agency

"Jacobs's bejeweled debut will dazzle you

Will humanity's greatest creation be the light it needs in its darkest hour

Best Debut Short Stories 2021: The Pen America Dau Prize POLITICAL THRILLER No one explains to usThe annual and essential collection of the newest voices in short fiction, selected this year by Nana Kwame Adjei Brenyah, Kali Fajardo Anstine, and Beth Piatote. Who are the most promising short story writers working today? Where do we look to discover the future stars of literary fiction? This book will offer a dozen answers to these questions. The stories collected here represent the most recent winners of the PEN Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize