About “Yeti Lovemaking” I’d offer the observation that it’s, as only Ling Ma can imagine, a challenge.
Two Nurses, Smoking by David Means
Some of David Means’ stories are worth their own book club meeting.
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
There’s a wonderful distinction in "The Book of Goose" between game-real and the fearsome reality of the world. “Game-real” is when your gameplay is so intense it feels real. Only it isn’t. Only the changing world is real, and in this novel, it eats up people alive.
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
I’ve read novels, widely praised, by contemporary authors whose prose seems watery next to the lexical richness of ""If I Survive You".
A Calm and Normal Heart by Chelsea T. Hicks
She starts her stories when her heroines are at a turning point, whether leaving a relationship or beginning a new one, fleeing a city or returning home, and shows that changing their situation gets them to where they need to go. Often her characters look to their heritage to lead the way, and a strong part of their heritage is language.
Theodore Dreiser’s Short Story “Free”
In reality, Dreiser went looking, searching, and I can’t say if he found what he was looking for in a woman. He had so many, one wonders if his search proved somewhat futile.