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).
