The first stories we will read are:

Girl by Jamaica Kincaid

How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie) by Junot Diaz

Shout by Dagoberto Gilb

Then we will read:

Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

Followed by:

Reunion by John Cheever (Audio read by Richard Ford)

Hills Like White Elephants by Ernest Hemingway

In the Land of the Free by Sui Sin Far

Final stories for this section:

Araby by James Joyce

A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A&P by John Updike

Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin

A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner