From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker
Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection
Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
Talking candy bars, baby geniuses, disappointed mothers, castrated dogs,
interned teenagers, and moral fables--all in this hilarious and
heartbreaking collection from an author hailed as the heir to Kurt
Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon.
The first thing you ought to know is that Saunders is the funniest
writer in America... [But] Saunders's laughs are a cover, a diversion,
beneath which reside some profoundly serious intentions regarding the
morality of how we live and the power of love and immanent death to
transform us into vastly better creatures... I can't think of another
writer who would try to do what Saunders is doing, or anything close to
it. This is an important book.--The Nation
Saunders is a hilarious, wicked, and pitch-perfect satirist of our
times, of course, but for a satirist he has a whole lot of
heart.--Esquire