“Kind of Magic Back Here”: Gardening and Human Limitations in George Saunders’s “The Semplica Girl Diaries”
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2021
Keywords
George Saunders, Semplica Girl, spiritual, Christian, Buddhist
Abstract
Previous scholars have noted George Saunders’s interest in critiquing American consumerist mentality and satirizing corporate ethics. A smaller number have studied Saunders’s interest in the human experience as defined through a spiritual quest. The material and spiritual collide in this essay, which studies Saunders’s use of the Semplica Girls, in “The Semplica Girl Diaries,” to embody an intersection between our human limitations and our responses to those limitations through material, aesthetic, and spiritual avenues.
Journal Title
Christianity & Literature
Volume
70
Issue
1
First Page
52
Last Page
67
First Department
English
Recommended Citation
Moncrieff, Scott, "“Kind of Magic Back Here”: Gardening and Human Limitations in George Saunders’s “The Semplica Girl Diaries”" (2021). Faculty Publications. 3257.
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/pubs/3257