One day, walking neer one of your Yuman houses, smelling all the interest with snout, I herd, from inside, the most amazing sound. Turns out, what that sound is, was: the Yuman voice, making werds.
I love George Saunders. No, I REALLY love George Saunders. A friend saved me this story from her weekend Guardian. She saved it because it was about foxes and was slightly bemused by my whoops of glee when I saw who the author was.
This is a deceptively simple yet tragic tale of foxes and their difficult relationship with the human-dominated world. But the magic of Saunders is such that his stories work on many levels. This brilliant and engaging story is written in the form of a letter from a fox to a human, and is an allegory not only for our tricky and destructive relationship with the natural world, but also of immigrants and immigration—as seen through an animal’s eyes. Genius.
Published in The Guardian, 21st October, 2017. Read it online here
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