A review by liambenfer
Sorry Please Thank You by Charles Yu

4.0

While these stories can be wickedly intense, I really appreciated this whole collection. The conversations around selling life are harrowing and terrifying to consider, but I think do a brilliant job speaking to society today. Throughout my read, I found myself anxious and uncomfortable often, but perpetually engaged and surprised by how much empathy I felt for each story’s characters. I feel like these stories were chock-full of themes regarding how quick we can be to discount our own worth, possibilities, and true selves or even destroy them all together in exchange for security and “success” as determined by the status quo. There were also a whole lot of stories in this collection that kept me wracking my brain to figure out exactly what was going on (and I’m still not sure I have them all figured out), which I personally really love! This is another short story collection I’m excited to return to in the future!