RaveSan Francisco ChronicleAcutely relevant ... Let’s bask in this new collection of short stories, which is how many of us first discovered him and where he excels like no other ... Saunders’ imaginative capacity is on full display ... Liberation Day carries echoes of Saunders’ previous work, but the ideas in this collection are more complex and nuanced, perhaps reflecting the new complexities of this brave new world of ours. The title story is only one of a handful of the nine stories in this collection that show us our collective and personal dilemmas, but in reading the problems so expressed — with compassion and humanity — our spirits are raised and perhaps healed. Part of the Saunders elixir is that we feel more empathetic after reading his work.
