The ten best short story collections you've never read

Mia Alvar's debut story collection is In the Country. One entry on her list of the ten best short story collections you've never read:Girls At War and Other Stories by Chinua Achebe

These bleak, unflinching tales of bureaucrats and schoolchildren, soldiers and housewives during the Nigerian civil war of the late 1960s are far from an easy or comfortable read. Yet even as Achebe traces just how