num_pages: 149
description: LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKER AWARDONE OF TIME S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARONE OF NPRS BEST BOOKS OF 2019 All the tawdry details Im dying for are in these stories but theyre given out like old sweaterswithout shame without guile. Amy Hempel is the writer who makes me feel most affiliated with other humans; we are all living this wayhiding alone obsessedand thats ok. Miranda JulyFrom legendary writer Amy Hempel one of the most celebrated and original voices in American short a ravishing sometimes heartbreaking new story collectionher first in over a decade.Amy Hempel is a master of the short story. A multiple award winner Hempel is highly regarded among writers reviewers and readers of contemporary fiction. This new collection her first since her Collected Stories published more than a decade ago is a literary event.These fifteen exquisitely honed stories reveal Hempel at her most compassionate and spirited as she introduces characters lonely and adrift searching for connection. In A Full-Service Shelter a volunteer at a dog shelter tirelessly devotedly cares for dogs on a list to be euthanized. In Greed a spurned wife examines her husbands affair with a glamorous older married woman. And in Cloudland the longest story in the collection a woman reckons with the choice she made as a teenager to give up her newborn infant. Quietly dazzling these stories are replete with moments of revelation and transcendence and with Hempels singular startling inimitable sentences.
language: English
title: Sing to It: New Stories
publisher: Scribner