Tenth of December

George Saunders is a trailblazing writer who has dazzled critics and earned high praise for his realistic and moving work. His tenth book, “Tenth of December,” represents his most honest and accessible collection yet. In the haunting opening story “Victory Lap,” a boy witnesses the attempted abduction of his next-door neighbor and is faced with a terrifying choice: Does he ignore what he sees, or act? And in the title story, a heart-wrenching meditation on imagination, memory, and loss, cancer patient George Saunders discovers that dying can be as difficult as living.