One Bas­ket by Edna Fer­ber is a col­lec­tion of short sto­ries that explores themes of love, loss, and human con­nec­tion, with vivid char­ac­ters and set­tings that cap­ture the com­plex­i­ties of life in ear­ly 20th-cen­tu­ry Amer­i­ca.