{"product_id":"sing-to-it-stories-9781982109127","title":"Sing to It: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE PEN\/FAULKNER AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom 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\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e) and \"scintillating as the blade of a knife\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmy 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese 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 and with Hempel's singular, startling, inimitable sentences. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRavishing, heartbreaking, and powerfully concise, \u003ci\u003eSing to It\u003c\/i\u003e is an \"exquisite collection\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e) and a \"quiet masterpiece by a true American original\" (NPR).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHempel, Amy:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Amy Hempel is the author of \u003ci\u003eSing to It, The Dog of the Marriage, Tumble Home, At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom, Reasons to Live, \u003c\/i\u003eand the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eUnleashed. \u003c\/i\u003e Her stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eHarper's, Vanity Fair, GQ, Tin House, The Harvard Review, The Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and have been widely anthologized, including \u003ci\u003eBest American Short Stories \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Best Nonrequired Reading. \u003c\/i\u003eShe teaches in the Graduate Writing Program at Bennington College, and at Stony Brook Southampton. She lives near New York City.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50645664629010,"sku":"9781982109127","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_15e603dc-3312-4708-a2b2-41c5e77547f2.jpg?v=1733158548","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sing-to-it-stories-9781982109127","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}