The World Doesn't Require You: Stories

"Cross River, Md. – the home of America’s “only successful slave uprising” – is one of the country’s most fascinating cities. And it exists only in the imagination of author Rion Amilcar Scott, who returns to the fictional town in his second short story collection. The book is less a collection of short, genre-spanning stories than it is an ethereal atlas of a world that’s both wholly original and disturbingly familiar; it’s one of the most innovative, and best, books of the year."