Claire B. reviewed on 5/23/2014 + 29 more book reviews

These are depressing stories about under-paid, overworked, over-medicated, and mostly miserable people. This is America of either the present or very near future, and it's not a pleasant place to be. What humor there is in these stories (and I'm not sure much is present) is very dark. The stories seemed somehow flat to me, but there were occasional moments of empathy, especially in the title story.

Honestly, I liked what George Saunders had to say for himself in the appended interview with David Sedaris more than the writing itself.

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