Sorry Please Thank You

**The author of the widely praised debut novel *How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe* returns with a hilarious, heartbreaking, and utterly original collection of short stories.

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A big-box store employee is confronted by a zombie during the graveyard shift, a problem that pales in comparison to his inability to ask a coworker out on a date . . . A fighter leads his band of virtual warriors, thieves, and wizards across a deadly computer-generated landscape . . . A company outsources grief for profit, their tagline: "Don't feel like having a bad day? Let someone else have it for you." Drawing from both pop culture and science, Charles Yu is a brilliant observer of contemporary society, filling his stories with equal parts laugh-out-loud humor and piercing insight into the human condition. He has already garnered comparisons to such masters as Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams, and in *Sorry Please Thank You*, we have resounding proof of a major new voice in American fiction.