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Tenth of December

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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

Comic energy + telling details (some that shock) + and dialogue that pops. A story collection by George Saunders always surprises (in voice, or plot, or jokes) even as it shows us where we've gone completely off the trail.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY AND BUZZFEED • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

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