The Best American short stories 1997

Manners and Right Behavior: Saboteur / Ha Jin

Under the pitons / Robert Stone

Bob Darling / Carolyn Cooke

Chez Lambert / Jonathan Franzen

Identifying the Stranger : Transactions / Michelle Cliff

Nobody in Hollywood / Richard Bausch

Save my child! / Cynthia Ozick

Eternal love / Karen E. Bender

A girl with a monkey / Leonard Michaels

St. Martin / Lydia Davis

Perceived Social Values: Fiesta, 1980 / Junot Diaz

From Willow Temple / Donald Hall

Killing babies / T. Coraghessan Boyle

Send me to the electric chair / Clyde Edgerton

Missing women / June Spence

Air mail / Jeffrey Eugenides

Soon / Pam Durban

Rites of Passage: Shipmates down under / Michael Byers

Powder / Tobias Wolff

Search Bay / Alyson Hagy

Little frogs in a ditch / Tim Gautreaux.