![]() ![]() ![]() In Ghoul, they are performers in a huge theme park that seems to have no limits, and they love their stupid jobs. Saunders’ characters are happy in their difficulty, at least at first. We do, however, keenly understand the sense of suspension, of a waking sleep or living death that this amnesiac chorus represents. As with the washing line, the reader is not invited to believe the hokum science the explanation is kept loose. In this case, the narrator himself is pinioned on a non-specific “wall” waiting to become an orchestrated voice in an evening concert conducted by his owner. In this new collection, the eponymous story Liberation Day explores a similar conceit from the inside. In it, a man buys an “SG” lawn decoration which, we slowly discover, is made by stringing up immigrant women, as though on a washing line, by means of a micro-fibre inserted through their brains. The 2012 story The Semplica Girl Diaries was a kind of signature piece for Saunders in his more speculative mode. ![]()
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