Sorry Please Thank You by Charles Yu

Sorry Please Thank You by Charles Yu

From the National Book Award-⁠winning author of Interior Chinatown, comesa hilarious, heartbreaking, and utterly original collection of short stories.

A big-box store employee is confronted by a zombie during the graveyard shift, a problem that pales in comparison to his inability to ask a coworker out on a date . . . A fighter leads his band of virtual warriors, thieves, and wizards across a deadly computer-generated landscape, but does he have what it takes to be a hero? . . . A company outsources grief for profit, its slogan- "Don't feel like having a bad day? Let someone else have it for you."

Drawing from both pop culture and science, Charles Yu is a brilliant observer of contemporary society, and in Sorry Please Thank You he fills his stories with equal parts laugh-out-loud humor and piercing insight into the human condition. He has already garnered comparisons to such masters as Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams, and in this new collection we have resounding proof that he has arrived (via a wormhole in space-time) as a major new voice in American fiction.

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional World, written by Charles Yu, was chosen one of Time magazine's top books of the year. He was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Prize and awarded the National Book Foundation's 5 Under 35 Award for his story collection Third Class Superhero. His writing has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, Playboy, and Slate, among others. Yu, his wife Michelle, and their two daughters live in Los Angeles.