Best Stories

A collection of twenty-four short stories composed between the late 1930s and the early 1960s, for which the author received the Governor General's Literary Award for English-language fiction in 1963. The stories are centered on themes of social justice and reflect the immense flux of the mid-century. They cover issues such as the Great Depression, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Civil Rights movement, and second-wave feminism. Garner also explores Canadian social conflicts, including anglophone–francophone conflict, racism, the disenfranchisement of First Nations people, and the mistreatment of the mentally disabled. The collection is noted for its devastating precision of prose and contribution to transnational leftist and proletarian literature.

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