Below are the 10 debut short story collections that Adam Vitcavage included on the Best Debut Books of 2024 list.
Long live short stories.
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Raul Palma‘s debut novel A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens is a genre-bending take on immigration, capitalism, and society through a lens of a magical realism ghost story. Palma follows a man named Hugo whose wife has died and a debt collector is hounding him. He uses his connection with spirits – one he doesn’t believe in – to pull some quick moves to get ahead in life. It all seems to be okay until… it isn’t.
Hialeah Gardens is an originally imaginative and sometimes quite hilarious book that will give readers something fresh that they haven’t really encountered before.
A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens is available now. You can read an excerpt from the novel below.
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Caleb Tankersley‘s debut short story collection Sin Eaters won the 2021 Permafrost Prize, which judge Julie Iromuanya called “rich” and “emotionally resonant.” The collection reveals why we as a society is so weirdly obsessed with small towns and the oddities that inhabit them. His characters are unfortgettable.
In addition to this debut on University of Alaska Press, he previously released a poetry chapbook called Jesus Works the Night Shift.
Debutiful corresponded with the author via email to help take readers inside this mesmerizing debut short story collection.
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