Tumble home
Subtitle: a novella and short stories
By: Amy Hempel.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
Description: Tumble Home is narrated by people with skewed visions of home. Not exactly crazy, they become obsessed and irrational as their inner logic leads them astray. In the title novella, a woman living in a psychiatric halfway house writes to a man she has met only once. Proceeding in brief vignettes that link and illuminate, she recounts her peculiar life with the other patients.

The accretions of anecdote lead deeper and deeper into the psyche and history of the narrator, gradually revealing the reason for her urgent letter.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 153-154).
Table of contents: title: Weekend; title: Church cancels cow; title: The children's party; title: Sportsman; title: Housewife; title: The annex; title: The new lodger; title: Tumble home.