Liberation Day Stories

Description: NEW YORK Times Bestseller One of our most inventive purveyors of the form returns with pitch - perfect genre - bending stories that stare into the abyss of our national character . An exquisite work from a writer whose reach is galactic. Oprah Daily Booker Prize winner George Saunders returns with his first collection of short stories since the New York Times bestseller Tenth of December. ONE OF THE BEST Books OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review The New Yorker Oprah Daily NPR Time US a Today The Guardian Esquire Kirkus Reviews Booklist Library Journal The best short - story writer in English (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power ethics and justice and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose wickedly funny unsentimental and exquisitely tuned Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: Here is a collection of prismatic resonant stories that encompass joy and despair oppression and revolution bizarre fantasy and brutal reality. Love Letter is a tender missive from grandfather to grandson in the midst of a dystopian political situation in the (not too distant all too believable) future that reminds us of our obligations to our ideals ourselves and one another. Ghoul is set in a Hell - themed section of an underground amusement park in Colorado and follows the exploits of a lonely morally complex character named Brian who comes to question everything he takes for granted about his reality. In Mother's Day two women who loved the same man come to an existential reckoning in the middle of a hailstorm. In Elliott Spencer our eighty - nine - year - old protagonist finds himself brainwashed his memory scraped a victim of a scheme in which poor vulnerable people are reprogrammed and deployed as political protesters. And My House in a mere seven pages comes to terms with the haunting nature of unfulfilled dreams and the inevitability of decay. Together these nine subversive profound and essential stories coalesce into a case for viewing the world with the same generosity and clear - eyed attention Saunders does even in the most absurd of circumstances.
Title: Liberation Day Stories
Barcode: 9780525509592
Publication Date: 10/18/2022