A review by jeremymorrison
The Best American Short Stories 2018 by Heidi Pitlor, Roxane Gay

These short stories include: a father abandons the family trailer leaving behind a high school senior; after seven years of imprisonment, Curtis Smith watches his friend's son; a grandfather with dementia cares for his grandson; Alice, an employee at a clothing store, looks for an additional revenue source; a lost brother remains are found in an unmarked grave; Claire's pic of herself in a confederate bikini goes viral; a woman returns to a family reunion while harboring a secret about her father; a fourteen year old boy explores his sexuality with Rio, his mother's friend's son; a mother searches for her son while in detention for immigration; a girl angles to sleep near Esau Abraham on a museum overnight; a professor admits his paternity and explains his racial experiment in a letter to his son; Leonel calls his brother to assist their abusive father in performing magic for the town and the dead mayor; a nomadic sitar player rents a room near his adult daughter; through his father's cancer, a man meets Wayne, a mortician and hunter of fallen elk antlers; Gunter, a distrusted local, seeks a baptism from Reverend Yates; a father bets his daughter to never return home when she turns 18; Kristen follows online cooking celebrity Lucy Hendrick with antipathy; a mother reunites with her trans daughter, Luciana; and Wendy Change enters a psychiatric hospital for an evaluation on election day.