He earned lasting recognition with the Booker Prize winner Lincoln in the Bardo, but George Saunders has always been first and foremost a writer of world-class short fiction. Among the nine tales here, "Ghoul" is set in a Hell-themed section of an underground amusement park; "Love Letter" is a tender missive from a man to his grandson, in the midst of a dystopian political situation; and in "Mother's Day," two women who loved the same man come to an existential reckoning in the middle of a hailstorm.