A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders Ingram He doesn't expect to find

He doesn't expect to find any attraction to the girl that is his antithesis

Despite being broken in ways she refuses to acknowledge

In this retelling of an old tale

Gidwitz is on fire here

profound question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders Ingram He doesn't expect to findFor 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 interested in how fiction