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Sing to it : new stories / Amy Hempel.

by Hempel, Amy.

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Scribner, 2019.

9781982109110 (hc.)

1st Scribner hardcover ed.

ix, 149 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Sing to it -- The orphan lamb -- A full-service shelter -- The doll tornado -- I stay with Syd -- The chicane -- Greed -- Fort Bedd -- Four calls in the last half hour -- The correct grip -- The second seating -- Moonbow -- Equivalent -- The quiet car -- Cloudland.

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.

Literary fiction.

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