Staff Picks: Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima

Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima

He was sick of being blamed for things that could be fixed,
with a little more understanding. The Devil told them about
the brain, but they only ended up with the abomination of
lobotomy. 

 From Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima

After meeting the devil at a Halloween party in 1999, the main character in Ananda Lima’s debut short story collection feels the presence of the fallen angel at key moments in her life for the following two decades. 

Staff Picks: Good Citizens Need Not Fear by Maria Reva

Good Citizens Need Not Fear by Maria Reva

Good Citizens Need Not Fear is a collection of linked short stories set in a housing complex in Ukraine in the years leading up to and following the fall of the Soviet Union. Residents of the 10-story housing complex, 1933 Ivansk Street, face struggles that US readers will be familiar with like poverty, health concerns, and government bureaucracy as well as uniquely Ukrainian threats like being spied on by neighbors and sent to Siberia.