From the Book - First Scribner hardcover edition.
Preface / Caitlin Roper --
Introduction / Rivka Galchen --
Recognition / Victor LaValle --
A blue sky like this / Mona Awad --
The walk / Kamila Shamsie --
Tales from the LA. River / Colm Toibin --
Clinical notes / Liz Moore --
The team / Tommy Orange --
The rock / Leila Slimani --
Impatient Griselda / Margaret Atwood
Keepsakes / Andrew O'Hagan --
The girl with the big red suitcase / Rachel Kushner --
The morningside / Tea Obreht --
Screen time/ Alejandro Zambra --
How we used to play / Dinaw Mengestu --
Line 19 Woodstock/Glisan / Karen Russell --
If wishes was horses / David Mitchell --
The perfect travel buddy / Paolo Giordano --
An obliging robber / Mia Couto --
Sleep / Uzodinma Iweala --
The cellar / Dina Nayeri --
That time at my brother's wedding / Laila Lalami --
A time of death, the death of time / Julian Fuks --
Prudent girls / Rivers Solomon --
Origin story / Matthew Baker --
To the wall/ Esi Edugyan --
Barcelona: open city / John Wray --
One thing / Edwidge Danticat.
