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Liberation Day: Stories by George Saunders
4.0
George Saunders is one of my favorite authors and he writes short stories as well as anyone at this time.
His latest collection Liberation Day: Stories is his 5th short story volume and his first for 9 years.
As always his stories have some wonderfully inventive settings, here we have Liberation Day
the title story a dystopian fable about enslaved people forced to vocalize for the entertainment of the wealthy. The themes of imprisonment and coercion and also present in Ghoul and Elliot Spencer.
In The Mom of Bold Action, a suburban mom and dad rush to defend their young son, who’s been accosted by one of two neighborhood drifters — but nobody’s sure which one.
Though there is a lot of humor in it, Liberation Day is less playful than Saunders’s earlier work, more anchored in the events of current times.
It is a fantastic read and I've made it the Book of the Month for May 2023 on my site
https://quizlit.org/quizlits-book-of-the-month-may-2023
His latest collection Liberation Day: Stories is his 5th short story volume and his first for 9 years.
As always his stories have some wonderfully inventive settings, here we have Liberation Day
the title story a dystopian fable about enslaved people forced to vocalize for the entertainment of the wealthy. The themes of imprisonment and coercion and also present in Ghoul and Elliot Spencer.
In The Mom of Bold Action, a suburban mom and dad rush to defend their young son, who’s been accosted by one of two neighborhood drifters — but nobody’s sure which one.
Though there is a lot of humor in it, Liberation Day is less playful than Saunders’s earlier work, more anchored in the events of current times.
It is a fantastic read and I've made it the Book of the Month for May 2023 on my site
https://quizlit.org/quizlits-book-of-the-month-may-2023