While some of the fiction here trucks in the high jinks we’ve come to associate with a Saunders story - the crazy venues and vocations - many of the stories break new ground, even as they reprise some of Saunders’s more familiar obsessions.įour stories in particular stand out: “Victory Lap” “Home” “Puppy” and the title story, all of which are devastating, and, for Saunders, uncharacteristically straightforward. Especially as it appears in his latest collection, Tenth of December. Saunders’s universe is not pretty, though it is funny. In the meantime, someone, in some strange place, is roasting consumerism, bureaucracy, and a culture laden with stupidity. People are often rising up out of their bodies and telling us about it. Saunders writes stories that go out of their way to send up religious conventions even as they contain in them the impulse towards religion. If you’ve read any George Saunders at all, you’ll know that his fiction orients itself around a few precepts: people are good their impulse to surmount their worser selves is inviolate and unflagging and they can, in fact, be saved. Sign up for our newsletter to get submission announcements and stay on top of our best work.Ī new collection of devastating stories from a master of the form.
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