The Beacon Best of 2000 : great writing by women and men of all colors and cultures /
Edwidge Danticat, guest editor.
- Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press, c2000.
- x, 232 p. ; 22 cm.
No countries but the distance of the world / The toughest Indian in the world / Rope burn / Pissarro at dusk / Planting sticks and grinding yucca : on being a translated writer / From senoritas in love / Pet fly / The volunteers / Ten thousand in the round / My grandmother's tale of how crab-o lost his head / Family album / A son in shadow / Charisma : a fiction / Precious and her hair / The end of empire / Three keys / Standing at the crossroads / Speak / Death of the cowboy / A ride to the wedding / Fathering words / My middle kingdom / Oath taking / Walking / Suffering / Nicholas Samaras -- Sherman Alexie -- Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Derek Walcott -- Julia Alvarez -- Jaime Manrique -- Walter Mosley -- Chang-rae Lee -- Lois-Ann Yamanaka -- Robert Antoni -- Diane Thiel -- Fred D'Aguiar -- Ai -- Ifeona Fulani -- Pico Iyer -- Lidia Torres -- Bryant Keith Alexander -- Aimee Nezhukumatathil -- Larry McMurtry -- Phebus Etienne -- E. Ethelbert Miller -- Adrienne Su -- Opal Palmer Adissa -- Kate Krautkramer -- Kyoko Mori.