A review by lizal33
The Best American Short Stories 2008 by Heidi Pitlor, Salman Rushdie

I have a little collection of these annual anthologies--going all the way back to 1995! But sometime in the mid-2000s I fell behind in reading them, so now I'm trying to get caught up. Although I do always find at least one or two stories in each year's volume that stick with me through time, it's actually not that common that I find a volume that is extraordinary in its entirety. But I think this volume is one such; I pretty literally couldn't put it down, and each story only made me want to read the next one even more. Plus, since these stories were all first published as stories in 2007-2008, by 2013, many of them have been republished in collections by the authors, and have gotten rave reviews (Karen Russel, George Saunders, etc.). So it was a pleasant surprise to find them here as well.