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For Jonathan Lethem, “crime stories are deep species gossip.” He writes in his introduction that “they’re fundamentally stories of power, of its exercise, both spontaneous and conspiratorial; stories of impulse and desire, and of the turning of tables.” The Best American Mystery Stories 2019 has its full share of salacious intrigue, guilt, and retribution. The twists and bad decisions pile up when a thief picks the wrong target or a simple scavenger hunt takes a terrible turn. What happens when you befriend a death row inmate, or just how does writing Internet clickbait became a decidedly dangerous occupation? “How can we not hang on their outcomes?” asks Lethem. “Are we innocent ourselves, or complicit?” Read on to find out.

Best-selling, award-winning, pop culture powerhouse Roxane Gay guest edits this year’s Best American Short Stories, the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction. “I am looking for the artful way any given story is conveyed,” writes Roxane Gay in her introduction to The Best American Short Stories 2018, “but I also love when a story has a powerful message, when a story teaches me something about the world.” The artful, profound, and sometimes funny stories Gay chose for the collection transport readers from a fraught family reunion to an immigration detention center, from a psychiatric hospital to a coed class sleepover in a natural history museum. We meet a rebellious summer camper, a Twitter addict, and an Appalachian preacher—all characters and circumstances that show us what we “need to know about the lives of others.”

Когда молодой лесопромышленник Пембертон привозит жену в свой лагерь посреди хребтов Аппалачей, его ждет неприятный сюрприз: отец прежней возлюбленной, простой кухарки, беременной ребенком хозяина, планирует убить подлого соблазнителя на глазах у дочери. Но судьба распоряжается иначе, и жизни нескольких людей сплетаются в тугой клубок на фоне Великой депрессии 1930-х. Здесь сходятся воедино алчность и честь, любовь и жестокость, воля и слабость… Пембертоны готовы уничтожить всех, кто мешает им поднять-ся к вершинам власти, – но выдержит ли их союз бремя греха?