Tenth of December by George Saunders

 

It was loaned to me by Amy of the cool witch house.  If you ever find yourself lacking in an emotional connection with the world around you or lacking in general empathy, then I would strongly recommend this book.  Often, fictional circumstances encourage us to look for opportunities to make a difference among the indifferent. 

At just over two hundred pages, you can read this book in a day and in each of these short stories, put yourself in someone else's shoes and feel inspiration to do good in seeing the causality in subtle heroism.  And maybe that inspiration can give us the courage to accept and remember that integrity comes at a price and that is a fact of life.