![]() ![]() And that’s quite a trick on Saunders’s part. Of course, by the end, their stories individualize even as they intersect, but that only makes their link feel all the more magical and powerful. It almost felt like it was drifting into magical realism territory. Even the characters’ backstories and central conflicts melded so as to think they were the same person. In fact, he goes back and forth between protagonists – hero/victim, rescuer/rescue – so well that I occasionally got lost as to who was who, which was which. ![]() He is particularly good at the perspective-switch thing in this one. This story combines both his gift for representing internal monologues of different characters and his penchant for switching perspectives mid-story. We’ve seen this kind of thing before from Saunders. But c’mon, I had to run it today, right? I had to. ![]() Tenth Of December by George Saunders, 2011īlending the thoughts, backstories and lives of two separate protagonists into one and then separating them again ![]()
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