Essays in this volume review and analyze contemporary short stories about immigrant living by such authors as Junot Diaz, Sui Sin Far, William Saroyan, Isaac Bashevis, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, Yi-yun Li, Ernesto Quiñonez, and Ha Jin.

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On contemporary immigrant short fiction -- O. E. Rølvaag in his various historical contexts -- American immigrant short fiction : an overview of recent critical resources -- Formalism and Latino "flash fiction" -- Forbidden desires : interracial relationships in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Jhumpa Lahiri's short fiction -- Divinity and ekphrasis : DeLillo's short fiction, 1990 to 2015 -- Somewhat queer triangles : Yiyun Li's "The Princess of Nebraska" and "Gold Boy, Emerald Girl" -- The migrant writes : a reading of Ha Jin's short fiction collections Under the Red Flag and A Good Fall -- "Even the dead make noises" : silence and language in Ernesto Quin~onez's stories -- Heroic insecurity in Junot Di´az's Drown and This Is How You Lose Her -- Resignifying wounds through silences in Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker -- The constructed island : experimentation and reference in Ana Mene´ndez's Adios, Happy Homeland! -- Artistry, thematic criticism, and two short stories -- Irony and epistolary form in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's "Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter" and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "The Thing Around Your Neck" -- Immigration, irony, and vision in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Interpreter of Maladies .