Tenth of December by George Saunders
Fiction
Saunders’s collection of ten short
stories in Tenth of December creatively and hilariously explore the
cracks in humanity that are exposed under stress. None of George Saunders’s
stories are very pleasant and most don’t even have a happy ending. His
characters are pushed through difficult conflicts that test their empathy or
devotion to their values. But through these trials the readers get a deeper
glimpse at what makes us human, and what Saunders seems to be saying is that
humans are naïve romantics. Saunders’s characters are idealists in a society
that seems to very rarely reward idealists. Sometimes what the reader sees is
reassuring, but most of the time I felt disgusted with either our flaws or how
society is set up to dismiss virtue.
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