The Mayfly Glimmer Before Last Call

Exceptional. Some stories collected here I was familiar with and had read in other forays, including Blue Devils, which was my introduction to Ballantine so many years ago now when I picked up a used copy of the 1998 Best American Short Stories in the early 2000s, and others, I was not - but all are expertly crafted by the best living American writer with Ballantine's signature style that often captures all the things that make America and Americans and humans unique.