The Best American Essays 2020

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A collection of the years best essays selected byAndr Aciman, author of the worldwide bestsellerCall Me by Your Name.

An essay is the child of uncertainty, Andre Aciman contends in his introduction toThe Best American Essays 2020. The struggle to write what one hopes is entirely true,and the long incubation every piece of writing requires of a writer who is thinking difficult thoughts, are what ultimately give the writing its depth, its magnitude, its grace. The essays Aciman selected center on people facing moments of deep uncertainty, searching for a greater truth. From a Black fathers confrontation of his sons illness, to a divorceestranscendent experience with strangers, to a bartender grieving the tragic loss of a friend, these stories are a master class not just in essay writing but in empathy, artfully imbuingmoments of hardship with understanding and that elusive grace.

The Best American 2020 Essays includes RABIH ALAMEDDINEBARBARA EHRENREICHLESLIE JAMISON JAMAICA KINCAIDALEX MARZANO-LESNEVICHA. O. SCOTTJERALD WALKERSTEPHANIE POWELL WATTSand others

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ANDRE ACIMAN, guest editor, is the author of Eight White Nights, Call Me by Your Name, Out of Egypt, False Papers, Alibis, Harvard Square, and Enigma Variations, and is the editor of The Proust Project. ROBERT ATWAN has been the series editor of The Best American Essays since its inception in 1986. He has edited numerous literary anthologies and written essays and reviews for periodicals nationwide.