A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders Sport and Leisure Normal People is a story

Normal People is a story of mutual fascination

A MYSTERIOUS DOORWAY

the Scarecrow and the Cowardly Lion

Who ever heard of a witch and a monster being friends

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders Sport and Leisure Normal People is a storyPaperback For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how