A review by an_enthusiastic_reader
The Best American Short Stories 2012 by Heidi Pitlor, Tom Perrotta

4.0

It took me about a year to go through this especially strong collection of 2012's stories. The stories I'll remember most include: Carol Anshaw's The Last Speaker of the Language; What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander; The Other Place by Mary Gaitskill (ultra-violent underpinnings, like a lot of Gaitskill); Roxane Gay's North Country; Miracle Polish by Steven Millhauser; Alice Munro's Axis; Volcano by Lawrence Osborne; Diem Perdidi by Julie Otsuka; Angela Pneuman's Occupational Hazard; and Tenth of December by George Saunders.