Foreword | p. ix |
Introduction | p. xiii |
The Smile on Happy Chang's Face: from Post Road | p. 1 |
Until Gwen: from The Atlantic Monthly | p. 19 |
A Taste of Dust: from Ninth Letter | p. 35 |
Old Friends: from The New Yorker | p. 43 |
Eight Pieces for the Left Hand: from Granta | p. 58 |
Stone Animals: from Conjunctions | p. 67 |
First Four Measures: from The Paris Review | p. 109 |
The Scheme of Things: from The New Yorker | p. 125 |
Silence: from The New Yorker | p. 149 |
Death Defier: from Virginia Quarterly Review | p. 174 |
The Girls: from Idaho Review | p. 212 |
Anda's Game: from Salon.com | p. 223 |
Simple Exercises for the Beginning Student: from Swink | p. 251 |
Old Boys, Old Girls: from The New Yorker | p. 265 |
The Secret Goldfish: from The New Yorker | p. 288 |
The Cousins: from Harper's Magazine | p. 298 |
Natasha: from Harper's Magazine | p. 318 |
Hart and Boot: from Polyphony | p. 339 |
Justice Shiva Ram Murthy: from Harvard Review | p. 356 |
Bohemians: from The New Yorker | p. 374 |
Contributors' Notes | p. 383 |
100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2004 | p. 394 |
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