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The “best short story writer in English” (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose—wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned—Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismatic, deeply resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality.

More than anything—more than friends or boyfriends or food or sleep or good grades—René wants to be a classical ballet dancer. Eve, her mother, supports René despite the overwhelming financial burden her training puts on the family and the screaming fights they get into with increasing frequency. But one thing is clear: René's dreams are never going to come true in Rapid City, South Dakota, circa 1973.