The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected -- and most popular -- of its kind. The Best American Mystery Stories 2012 includes Peter S. Beagle, Kathleen Ford, Mary Gaitskill, Jesse Goolsby, Lou Manfredo, Thomas McGuane, Gina Paoli, T. Jefferson Parker, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Charles Todd, Daniel Woodrell, and others

The Best American Mystery Stories 2012 (The Best American Series)

Literature & Fiction

Kathleen Ford

MARY GAITSKILL

Peter S. Beagle

Tom Andes

K. L. Cook

Jason DeYoung

Jesse Goolsby

Thomas J. Rice

United States

Mariner Books

I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them

[Read by Andrew Eiden]  Hailed by Robert Olen Butler as a ''major literary event,'' I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them is a work of disarming eloquence and heart -- wrenching wisdom -- a debut novel from a writer to watch.  In this powerful debut novel, three American soldiers haunted by their actions in Afghanistan search for absolution and human connection in family and civilian life.  Wintric Ellis joins the army as soon as he graduates from high school, saying goodbye to his girlfriend, Kristen, and to the backwoods California town whose borders have always been the limits of his horizon. Deployed for two years in Afghanistan in a directionless war, he struggles to find his bearings in a place where allies could at any second turn out to be foes. Two career soldiers, Dax and Torres, take Wintric under their wing. Together, these three men face an impossible choice: risk death or commit a harrowing act of war.  The aftershocks echo long after each returns home to a transfigured world, where his own children may fear to touch him and his nightmares still hold sway. Jesse Goolsby casts backward and forward in time to track these unforgettable characters from childhood to parenthood, from redwood forests to open desert roads to the streets of Kabul.

Literary

Blackstone Audio,Inc.

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