Pastoralia

I could not get into this one at all. The voices he chose for his characters really put me off. They seemed contrived, were hard to read and even harder to empathize with, and even Saunders seems to treat his characters with disdain. The overall tone of each story is hopeless and depressing. I stuck with it for a while because the stories were short and I was hoping there'd be some redemption, but I gave up by the time I got halfway through the cavemen story.