Fox 8

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An enchanting and darkly comic fable of human greed and nature, from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo, exquisitely illustrated by Chelsea Cardinal Fox 8 has always been curious, and a bit of a daydreamer. And, by hiding outside houses at dusk and listening to childrens bedtime stories, he has learned to speak Yuman. The power of words and the stories built from them is intoxicating for a fox with a poetic soul, but there is danjur on the horizon: a new shopping mall is being built, cutting off his packs food supply. To save himself and his fellow foxes, Fox 8 will have to set out on a harrowing quest from the wilds of nature deep into the dark heart of suburbia.

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Warm, kindhearted and radical ... Such delicacy, such serious wit -- Max Porter
Filled with wit and sadness Immensely powerful, extraordinarily human * Guardian *
George Saunders makes you feel as though you are reading fiction for the first time -- Khaled Hosseini
A morally passionate, serious writer ... He will be read long after these times have passed -- Zadie Smith
He makes the all-but-impossible look effortless. We're lucky to have him -- Jonathan Franzen
An astoundingly tuned voice graceful, dark, authentic and funny -- Thomas Pynchon
Saunders is a writer of arresting brilliance and originality, with a sure sense of his material and apparently inexhaustible resources of voice ... Scary, hilarious and unforgettable -- Tobias Wolff
There is no one better, no one more essential -- Dave Eggers
Few people cut as hard or deep as Saunders does -- Junot Diaz
Saunders is a true original - restlessly inventive, yet deeply humane -- Jennifer Egan
No one writes more powerfully than George Saunders about the lost, the unlucky, the disenfranchised -- Michiko Kakutani * New York Times *
Surreal and puncturing -- Margaret Atwood
Funny, poignant in flashes, deeply moving light as a feather and consistently weird -- Hari Kunzru
There is really no one like him. He is an original but everyone knows that -- Lorrie Moore
Part of the reason its so hard to talk about him is the shared acknowledgment among writers that Saunders is somehow a little more than just a writer. . . . [He] writes like something of a saint. He seems in touch with some better being -- Joshua Ferris

Author Bio

George Saunders is the author of nine books, including Lincoln in the Bardo, which won the 2017 Man Booker Prize, was shortlisted for the Golden Man Booker Prize, and won the Premio Gregor von Rezzori Prize 2018. Tenth of December was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the inaugural Folio Prize. He has received MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships and the PEN/Malamud Prize for excellence in the short story, and was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2013, he was named one of the worlds 100 most influential people by Time magazine. He teaches in the creative writing program at Syracuse University. Chelsea Cardinal is a graphic designer, illustrator and fashion designer. She grew up on the Canadian prairies, attended the Alberta College of Art + Design, moved to New York in 2005, worked at GQ Magazine for many years and is now freelancing.