What is a summary of The Best American Essays 2016

The Best American Essays 2016 is part of a series published annually. The 2016 volume editor was Jonathan Franzen, author of the novel The Corrections and a frequent non-fiction contributor to The New Yorker. The series editor is Robert Atwan. As each essay is highly distinct, the book as a whole defies summary.
Franzen states in the introduction that an essay is “something hazarded, not definitive, not authoritative; something ventured on the basis of the author’s personal experience and subjectivity.” He also selected the essays based on the idea that the authors took risks by daring to discuss something important from within themselves.
One notable contribution is one of the final essays by Oliver Sacks, who died in 2015. Family and identity questions loom large. Alexander Chee writes of queer identity and Joyce Carol Oates grapples with autism in her family, while Jill Sasson Quinn exposes her emotions in becoming an adoptive parent.

Contents:
Bajadas / Francisco Cantú
Girl / Alexanter Chee
Against honeymoons / Charles Comey
Names / Paul Crenshaw
Ordinary girls / Jaquira Díaz
My father and the wine / Irina Dumitrescu
My heart lies between "the fleet" and "all the ships" / Ela Harrison
The bonds of battle / Sebastian Junger
Sexual paranoia / Laura Kipnis
Thin places / Jordan Kisner Pyre / Amitava Kumar
Of human carnage / Richard M. Lange
Bastards / Lee Martin
Family tradition / Lisa Nikolidakis
The lost sister: an elegy / Joyce Carol Oates
Right/left: a triptych / Marsha Pomerantz
Big night / Jill Sisson Quinn
Killing like they do in the movies / Justin Phillip Reed
A general feeling of disorder / Oliver Sacks
In praise of contempt / Katherine E. Standefer
The eleventh commandment / George Steiner
Namesake / Mason Stokes
Black and blue and blond / Thomas Chatterton Williams
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