Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Accidentals | 2025 | Guadalupe Nettel | Buy |
Guadalupe Nettel published The Accidentals in 2025, her latest short story collection translated into English by Rosalind Harvey. The title comes from birding terminology: an “accidental” is a bird that has wandered far from its expected territory and may never return. That idea runs through all eight stories, which follow characters who have drifted from familiar ground.
Each story in the collection uses a first-person narrator, giving the reader close access to people trying to understand their own lives as they live them. Nettel writes about family, friendship, and self-perception with the same careful attention to oddity and unease that has defined her fiction since The Body Where I Was Born.