A review by cedickie
The Pen/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 by Daniyal Mueenuddin, Ron Rash, Laura Furman, Mary Gaitskill

2.0

I'm giving this two stars not because all the stories are bad, but because the collection as a whole is disappointing. I've read through a couple PEN/O.Henry Prize Stories books in the past and been impressed with its creative selection of stories. Sure there would be some stories I didn't care for as much, but I appreciated them for making the rest stand out all the more. Here, most of the stories have a similar feel and are mostly unmemorable. The stories I enjoyed the most were those that conveyed that sense the best or maybe deviated from it a bit.

My favorites/the stories I'll probably remember tomorrow: "Rothko Eggs" by Keith Ridgway, "Kindness" by Yiyun Li, "The First Wife" by Christine Sneed," "The Deep" by Anthony Doerr, "Corrie" by Alice Munro, and "East of the West" by Miroslav Penkov.