Sing to It

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