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He reads like he’s having such a good time and I love his humor so much.… He was one of those writers—he just opened doors and doors for me.”  \n—Karen Russell  \n“An astoundingly tuned voice—graceful, dark, authentic, and funny—telling just the kinds of stories we need to get us through these times.”  \n—Thomas Pynchon  \n“A multifaceted writer, very easy on the surface to pin down but incredibly diɽcult once you actually read him with any depth.”  \n—Joshua Ferris, in The New Yorker Book Bench  \n“Saunders is a writer of arresting brilliance and originality, with a sure sense of his material and apparently inexhaustible resources of voice.…Scary, hilarious, and unforgettable.”  \n—Tobias Wolʃ  \n“George Saunders is so funny and inventive he makes you love words and so wide-eyed wistful he talks you into loving people.”  \n—Sarah Vowell  \nTenth of December is a work of ɹction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used ɹctitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.  \nCopyright © 2013 by George Saunders All rights reserved.  \nPublished in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.,  \nNew York.  \nRANDOM HOUSE and colophon are registered trademarks of  \nRandom House, Inc.  \nThe stories in this work were originally published in Harper’s Magazine, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The New Yorker, and Story  \nMagazine.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nSaunders, George.  \nTenth of December : stories / George Saunders.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \neISBN: 978-0-8129-9381-3  \nI. 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With a thick neck of farmer integrity yet tender ample lips, who, placing one hand on the small of her back, whispered, Dreadfully sorry you had to endure that bit about the small package just now. Let us go stand on the moon. Or, uh, in the moon. In the moonlight.  \nHad he said, Let us go stand on the moon? If so, she would have tobe like, {eyebrows up}. And if no wry acknowledgment was forthcoming, be like, Uh, I am not exactly dressed for standing on the moon, which, as I understand it, is super-cold?  \nCome on, guys, she couldn’t keep treading gracefully on this marble stairwell in her mind forever! That dear old white-hair in the tiara was getting all like, Why are those supposed princes making that darling girl march in place ad nausea? Plus she had a recital tonight and had to go fetch her tights from the dryer.  \nEgads! 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