A Swim in a Pond in the Rain Non-Fiction Living proof of his parents’

Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion

and how can he and Ottoline help them mend their broken heart

and astonishingly sweet in a pure

" When a chance encounter brings her face-to-face with a potentially massive story about a game-changing medical discovery

the science-loving girl in the red dress

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain Non-Fiction Living proof of his parents’By George Saunders For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone