Sing to It New Stories Author:Amy Hempel From legendary writer Amy Hempel, one of the most celebrated and original voices in American short fiction: a ravishing, sometimes heartbreaking new story collection?her 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 fict... more »ion. 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 husband?s 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 Hempel?s singular, startling, inimitable sentences.« less