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 children's 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 pack's 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.

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 world's 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.

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 it's 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