A review by literatehedgehog
The Best American Short Stories 2005 by Katrina Kenison, Michael Chabon

3.0

A solid, enjoyable collection.

Favorites
Perrotta - The Smile of Happy Chang's Face
Lehane - Until Gwen
Lennon - Eight Pieces for the Left Hand (Short fiction!)
Bellows - First Four Measures
Williams - The Girls
Oates - The Cousins (unsettling epistolary!)

Good but Reminiscent of Others/Other Things/Typical Tropes
D'Ambrosio - The Scheme of Things
Ohlin - Simple Exercises for the Beginning Student
Mean - The Secret Goldfish
Bezmozgis - Natasha

What I expected and not much more [I wonder if this is because of genre?]
Link - Stone Animals
Doctorow - Anda's Game

Super Star I'd Read Anything and Everything Else
Munro - Silence
Saunders - Bohemians

Skipped Due to Content or Style Not My Jam
Bissell - Death Defier
Jones - Old Boys, Old Girls
Pratt - Hart and Boot
Reddi - Justice Shiva Ram Murthy