New Stories from the South 2000
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New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2000 tours the contemporary South better than any freight train, jet plane, or VW Bug. As Ellen Douglas muses in her preface to this year's collection, each story here helps us "feel and understand the significance of the buzzing blooming dying chaos of our experience." -An adulterous couple, whose love is like a hard drug, drives to Nashville to face worse news than they could have foreseen. -A box of kittens, discarded on the highway, becomes the bargaining chip in an unraveling marriage. -A young man habitually waves back to a chronic "waver" on hi commute to work, even as he's perplexed by what the waving might mean. Now in its fifteenth year, New Stories from the South is the most enduring, most read regional collection, or as Kirkus Reviews said, "one of the best story anthologies around.