Books like Tumble Home by Amy Hempel
Tumble Home presents a series of interlinked vignettes narrated by people who see home in distorted ways. The collection’s centerpiece is a woman in a psychiatric halfway house who writes an urgent letter to a man she has met only once. Through compact, sometimes disorienting prose, Hempel traces the narrator’s thoughts and memories, gradually revealing the motives behind her demand. The short stories together illuminate the psychological makeup of the characters and the ways their pasts shape their present obsessions.
First publish date: 1997
Genre: General Fiction/Short Stories
Authors: Amy Hempel
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