Double Play at Short Fiction_Gift_Guide the women's barracks are rustic

the women's barracks are rustic and heated by coal-burning pot-bellied stoves while German POWs spend their incarceration in buildings with central heat and hot water

these pieces record the violent social and political paroxysms that constantly threatened to undo the fragile democracy that was the Weimar Republic

but you can’t turn down darkness

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award

Double Play at Short Fiction_Gift_Guide the women's barracks are rusticTwelve year old Danny thinks that there is something very familiar about the girl who plays shortstop on the team he faces during the championship series, and his curiosity leads him to a surprising discovery about his own adoption.