he thinks he’s the

And he gave me that same smile. That same interested smile he gave his TV show, and his patients, and for the first time I realized it was not

from Ill Will by Dan Chaon

One day he’ll stop adding and subtracting income and expenditures in his head all the time. There’s an obvious difference between the children who live in homes where the...

from Bear Town by Fredrik Backman

She said the word “fat” slowly, funneling it back and forward, and thought about all the other things she had learned not to say aloud in America. She was...

from Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie