![]() There is darkness, but the reader does Tenth of December a disservice by missing the light. Similar examples can be found in each of the stories in the collection: humanity of characters shining light into the surrounding darkness. He also allows genuine human moments, like the narrator noticing a life-affirming leaf after a tragedy strikes a friend from work, or his two daughters’ tenderness towards each other at an unlikely time, to shine through. Saunders is careful to mock one but not the other. In “The Semplica Girl Diaries”, for example, the narrator is oblivious to why the Girls (called SGs) would be unhappy, but his concern for his wife and children, while misguided, is genuine. ![]() : George Saunders – The Tenth of December
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