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Sorry Please Thank You

Charles Yu

A surreal short-story collection where tech, corporate life, and metafiction become lenses on loneliness and identity.

First published 2012

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This collection follows a set of self-contained stories built around speculative premises: outsourced emotions, virtual worlds, alternate selves, wish-tech, and other genre-bending conceits. The stories are grouped into sections and often use unusual forms, shifting between conventional narration and more experimental structures.

Across the collection, characters are commonly isolated workers, awkward men, or self-questioning figures trying to cope with grief, desire, failure, and the pressure to perform a self. Several stories center on workplaces, games, or surreal systems that turn inner life into a service, product, or rule-based experience.

The stories repeatedly return to identity, loneliness, and what it means to be human in mediated or commodified environments. Some pieces are straightforward and emotionally direct, while others are more fragmented, conceptual, or self-aware, creating a mix of accessible and challenging reading experiences.

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Authors
Charles Yu
First published
2012
Genres
Short Stories, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Contemporary, Humor, Anthologies, Short Story Collection
Subjects
American Short stories
ISBN-13
9780307907172

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