About the Author
The author of four award-winning short story collections and more than one hundred published stories, Amina Gautier is the recipient of the Blackwell Prize, the Chicago Public Library Foundation’s 21st Century Award, the International Latino Book Award, the Mellon-Flamboyan Foundation Letras Boricuas Fellowship, and the PEN/MALAMUD Award for Excellence in the Short Story. Inspired by 1970s and ’80s music and pop culture touchstones, The Best That You Can Do is a collection of stories loudly and joyfully filled with cousins, aunts, grandparents, budding romances, and the nostalgia of Black childhood.
