I'm back to reading The Best American Short Stories 2023 and this one totally blew me away!
Maybe it was my expectations - she is an amazing short story writer. I 'discovered' her in the 2014 Best American Short Stories with the story - At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners. Holy Mama it blew me away and I've been reading her work ever since (most not measuring up to that story, but I think this new one just might.
from the New Yorker:
and some discussion of it from the New Yorker - https://archive.ph/dDowI
