A review by allisonreadsdc
The Best American Short Stories 2012 by Kate Walbert, Mike Meginnis, Heidi Pitlor, Edith Pearlman, Jennifer Haigh, Tom Perrotta, Lawrence Osborne, Mary Gaitskill, Steven Millhauser, Taylor Antrim, Nathan Englander, Angela Pneuman, Roxane Gay, George Saunders, Adam Wilson, Sharon Solwitz, Julie Otsuka, Eric Puchner, Taiye Selasi, Carol Anshaw, Alice Munro, Jess Walter

"North Country," "The Last Speaker of the Language" and "Tenth of December" are must-reads.

I also enjoyed "Sex Lives of African Girls," "Navigators," "The Other Place" and "Anything Helps." Everything else was well-written but not as memorable.