From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo, a literary masterclass on how to become both a better writer and reader, on what makes great stories work, and what they can tell us about how to live Saunders is warm and vivacious company, funny and even-handed and increasingly wise . This book is an enthralling delve into life and its narration - for people interested in how fiction works, it's like breathing oxygen