![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A company outsources grief for profit, its slogan: “Don’t feel like having a bad day? Let someone else have it for you.”ĭrawing from both pop culture and science, Charles Yu is a brilliant observer of contemporary society, and in Sorry Please Thank You he fills his stories with equal parts laugh-out-loud humor and piercing insight into the human condition. A fighter leads his band of virtual warriors, thieves, and wizards across a deadly computer-generated landscape, but does he have what it takes to be a hero?. The author of the widely praised debut novel How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe returns with a hilarious, heartbreaking, and utterly original collection of short stories.Ī big-box store employee is confronted by a zombie during the graveyard shift, a problem that pales in comparison to his inability to ask a coworker out on a date. ‘First Person Shooter’ is from a collection of short stories ‘Sorry Please Thank You: Stories’ by Charles Yu. ![]()
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