World Doesn't Require You

Finalist * PEN / Jean Stein Book AwardLonglisted Aspen Words Literary PrizeBest Books of the Year: Washington Post, NPR, Buzzfeed and EntropyBest Short Story Collections of the Year: Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, the New York Public Library, and Electric LiteratureWelcome to Cross River, Maryland, where Rion Amilcar Scott creates a mythical universe peopled by some of the most memorable characters in contemporary American fiction.