A review by julesjoulesjewels
The Best American Short Stories 2019 by Heidi Pitlor, Anthony Doerr

4.0

As with any anthology, there were some winners, there were some losers, and there were some stories that just didn't really stand out one way or the other. The winners, though, were absolutely exceptional.

My favorites, in order, were:

"Natural Disasters" by Alexis Schaitkin
"Black Corfu" by Karen Russell
"Omakase" by Weike Wang
"Hellion" by Julia Elliott
"The Third Tower" by Deborah Eisenberg
"Wrong Object" by Mona Simpson

These were by no means the only stories in the collection that I enjoyed, but they were the ones that really stood out.