Fox 8
2013 • 21 pages

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**Please note that this is a short illustrated work which will work best on a colour device** 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.

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George Saunders can do no wrong.

April 13, 2013

Beautiful, funny, and heartbreaking. Small book that packed a big punch in the gut.

August 10, 2019

I thought this was a novel, but I'm kind of glad it turned out to be a short story/novella because it's a little too cute for my taste.

March 24, 2019

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