Love, in its many forms and complexities, weaves through this collection
by Amy Bloom, the New York Times bestselling author of Away. Bloom's
astonishing and astute new work of connected stories illuminates the
mysteries of passion, family, and friendship.
Propelled by Bloom's dazzling prose, unmistakable voice, and generous
wit, Where the God of Love Hangs Out takes us to the margins and the
centers of real people's lives, exploring the changes that love and loss
create. A young woman is haunted by her roommate's murder; a man and his
daughter-in-law confess their sins in the unlikeliest of places. In one
quartet of interlocking stories, two middle-aged friends, married to
others, find themselves surprisingly drawn to each other, risking all
while never underestimating the cost. In another linked set of stories,
we follow mother and son for thirty years as their small and uncertain
family becomes an irresistible tribe.
Insightful, sensuous, and heartbreaking, these stories of passion and
disappointment, life and death, capture deep human truths. As The New
Yorker has said, "Amy Bloom gets more meaning into individual sentences
than most authors manage in whole books."
