The Best American Short Stories, 1989 (Best American Short Stories)

Fenstad's Mother / Charles Baxter --
Customs of the country / Madison Smartt Bell --
Living to be a hundred / Robert Boswell --
The black hand girl / Blanche McCrary Boyd --
Kubuku Rides (This is it) / Larry Brown --
Ralph the Duck / Frederick Busch --
White angel / Michael Cunningham --
The flowers of boredom / Rick DeMarinis --
Edie: a life / Harriet Doerr --
The concert party / Mavis Gallant --
Why I decide to kill myself and other jokes / Douglas Glover --
Disneyland / Barbara Gowdy --
Aunt Moon's young man / Linda Hogan --
Displacement / David Wong Louie --
The management of grief / Bharati Mukherjee --
Meneseteung / Alice Munro --
What men love for / Dale Ray Phillips --
Strays / Mark Richard --
The boy on the train / Arthur Robinson --
The letter writer / M.T. Sharif.
Responsibility: selected from U.S. and Canadian magazines by Margaret Atwood with Shannon Ravenel ; with an introduction by Margaret Atwood.