Sing to It
New Stories
New York : Scribner, 2019.
Format: Book
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Description: ix, 149 pages ; 22 cm
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.
Contents:
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.
ISBN:
9781982109110
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Hempel | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (page 147).