Liberation Day by George Saunders Gecko John Green's gift for storytelling

John Green's gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully curated collection about the shared human experience

Across the dark sea

Too many of us look at freedom as the absence of state power: we think we're free if we can do and say as we please

We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village

and a young country

Liberation Day by George Saunders Gecko John Green's gift for storytellingNamed a book of the year 2022 by the Sunday Times, The Times, Guardian, Irish Times, New Statesman, BBC and Waterstones The first short story collection in ten years from the Man Booker Prize winning, New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo MacArthur genius and Booker Prize winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times