Best American series.

From a Nigerian boy's friendship with his family's former houseboy to a sweatshop girl's experience as a sister wife, from love and murder on the frontier to a meltdown in academe, these stories have the economy and power to "break hearts bones vanities and cages."

Apollo / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -- Ravalushan / Mohammed Naseehu Ali -- Garments / Tahmima Anam -- Wonders of the shore / Andrea Barrett -- Bears / Sarah Shun-lien Bynum -- Great silence / Ted Chiang -- Flower / Louise Erdrich -- Letician Age / Yalitza Ferreras -- For the god of love, for the love of god / Lauren Groff -- Suitcase / Meron Hadero -- Treasure state / Smith Henderson -- Pat + Sam / Lisa Ko -- Cold little bird / Ben Marcus -- Politics of the quotidian / Caille Millner -- Bridge / Daniel J. O'Malley -- Prospectors / Karen Russell -- On this side / Yuko Sakata -- Gifted / Sharon Solwitz -- Secret stream / Héctor Tobar -- Williamsburg Bridge / John Edgar Wideman