Full name: Tumble Home: A Novella and Short Stories

Author: Amy Hempel Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780684838878 0684838877

Critically acclaimed master of the short story Amy Hempel's Tumble Home is narrated by people with skewed visions of home. Not exactly crazy, they become obsessed and irrational as their inner logic leads them astray. In the title novella, a woman living in a psychiatric halfway house writes to a man she has met only once. Proceeding in brief vignettes that link and illuminate, she recounts her peculiar life with the other patients. The accretions of anecdote lead deeper and deeper into the psyche and history of the narrator, gradually revealing the reason for her urgent letter. Similar books: The Fun Parts by Sam Lipsyte Out of the Woods by Chris Offutt Barking Man by Madison Smartt Bell The Secret Lives of People in Love by Simon Van Booy The Dog of the Marriage by Amy Hempel Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower Never Trust A Rabbit by Jeremy Dyson Airships by Barry Hannah In the Bedroom by Andre Dubus Escapes by Joy Williams Jigs & Reels by Joanne Harris Do Not Deny Me by Jean Thompson Nine Inches by Tom Perrotta The Night In Question by Tobias Wolff A Better Angel by Chris Adrian Sing to It by Amy Hempel The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Birds of America by Lorrie Moore