The Best American Short Stories 1997

by Annie Proulx, Katrina Kenison, Ha Jin, Robert Stone, Carolyn Cook, Jonathan Franzen, Michelle Cliff, Richard Bausch, Cynthia Ozick, Karen E. Bender, Leonard Michaels, Lydia Davis, Junot Díaz, Donald Hall, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Clyde Edgerton, June Spence, Jeffrey Eugenides, Pam Durban, Michael Byers, Tobias Wolff, Alyson Hagy, Tim Gautreaux