TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hempel,Amy
TI  - Sing to it: new stories 
SN  - 9781982109110
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New York
PB  - Scribner
KW  - Short stories, American
KW  - Short stories
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 147); 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
N2  - 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; Hempel's collection of exquisitely honed stories introduces characters, lonely and adrift, searching for connection. These stories are replete with moments of revelation and transcendence and with Hempel's singular, startling, inimitable sentences. -- adapted from jacket
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