Sing to It is a short story collection by Amy Hempel. The collection explores humanity's mysterious and enigmatic nature. Through brief and poetic explorations of her characters' minds, Hempel disturbs the reader out of apathy by showing the pain and isolation of characters struggling to move on from tragedy. Whether working at an animal shelter or remembering a suicidal aunt, the characters trudge through their lives, their hopes hindered by their inability to forgive themselves with an uncertain future on the horizon. These stories explore themes of grief, emotional distance, nature, and the power of language.
"There's a way in which you can make the readers laugh until suddenly they're crying and they don't know what hit them," says Amy Hempel of her first collection of short stories, Reasons to Live (1985...
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