Where the God of Love Hangs Out - (Random House Reader's Circle) by Amy Bloom (Paperback)

About the Book

""The New York Times"-bestselling author of "Away" returns with a collection of stories showing the beautiful flaws of humanity. Amy Bloom gets more meaning into individual sentences than most authors manage in whole books.--"The New Yorker."

Book Synopsis

Love, in its many forms and complexities, weaves through this collection by Amy Bloom, the New York Times bestselling author of Away. Bloom's astonishing and astute stories illuminate the mysteries of passion, family, and friendship. A young woman is haunted by her roommate's murder; a man and his daughter-in-law confess their sins in the unlikeliest of places; two middle-aged, married friends find themselves surprisingly drawn to each other, risking all for their love but never underestimating the cost. Propelled by Bloom's dazzling prose, unmistakable voice, and generous wit, Where the God of Love Hangs Out takes us to the margins and the centers of people's emotional lives, exploring the changes that come with love and loss.

Review Quotes

"Beautifully astute . . . extravagantly fine fiction." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times

"Wise and resounding . . . [Amy] Bloom joins the ranks of the unforgettable: F. Scott Fitzgerald's eyeless time; Virginia Woolf's impassivity in the progress of her characters' lives."--Los Angeles Times

"[Bloom] writes in beautifully wrought prose, with spunky humor and a flair for delectably eccentric details. . . . Brava."--The New York Times Book Review

"To read Bloom is to fall in love--with her characters and with the magic that language can make."--More

"Stirring . . . Characters [are] rendered in sexy, loving, living color."--San Francisco Chronicle

"[An] indelible new collection . . . Bloom illuminates the way our affections define us, old and young, for better or worse."--People

"Moving, shocking, written with compassion and understanding and generously reflective of the fragility of our lives."--The Miami Herald

About the Author

Amy Bloom is the author of four novels: White Houses, Lucky Us, Away, and Love Invents Us; and three collections of short stories: Where the God Of Love Hangs Out, Come to Me (finalist for the National Book Award), and A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award). Her first book of nonfiction, Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Crossdressing Cops and Hermaphrodites with Attitudes, is a staple of university sociology and biology courses. Her most recent book is the widely acclaimed New York Times bestselling memoir, In Love. She has written for magazines such as The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Vogue, Elle, The Atlantic, Slate, and Salon, and her work has been translated into fifteen languages. She is the Director of the Shapiro Center at Wesleyan University.