Sing to It Stories
Sing to It Stories by Amy Hempel is a reprint edition published by Simon and Schuster on November 12, 2019. This collection features fifteen short stories that showcase Hempel’s distinctive voice in American fiction. The narratives delve into the lives of characters who are often lonely and searching for connection, presenting their experiences with precision and emotional depth.
Readers will find a range of poignant themes throughout the stories, including the complexities of relationships and the struggles of individuals facing difficult choices. In “A Full-Service Shelter,” a volunteer’s dedication to dogs at risk of euthanasia highlights themes of compassion, while “Greed” explores the emotional turmoil of infidelity. The longest piece, “Cloudland,” reflects on a woman’s past decision regarding her newborn. With a total of 160 pages, this edition offers a rich exploration of human experiences through Hempel’s concise and impactful storytelling.
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LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD
ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019
From legendary writer Amy Hempel, one of the most celebrated and original voices in American short fiction: an astounding collection of fifteen stories that are “riveting in precision” (The Atlantic) and “scintillating as the blade of a knife” (The Wall Street Journal).
Amy Hempel is a master of the short story. A multiple award winner, Hempel is beloved and highly regarded among writers, reviewers, and readers of contemporary fiction.
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.
Ravishing, heartbreaking, and powerfully concise, Sing to It is an “exquisite collection” (The Wall Street Journal) and a “quiet masterpiece by a true American original” (NPR).
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