Tenth of December: Stories

Tenth of December is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2013 by George Saunders

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

RANDOM HOUSE and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

The stories in this work were originally published in Harper’s Magazine, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The New Yorker, and Story Magazine.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Saunders, George.

Tenth of December : stories / George Saunders.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-8129-9381-3

I. Title.

PS3569.A7897T46 2013

813′.54—dc23 2012013782

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