The Fun Parts
by Sam Lipsyte | 
Out of the Woods
by Chris Offutt | 
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 | 
Jigs & Reels
by Joanne Harris | 
Nine Inches
by Tom Perrotta | 
The Night In Question
by Tobias Wolff | 
A Better Angel
by Chris Adrian | 
All Around Atlantis
by Deborah Eisenberg | 
Touchy Subjects
by Emma Donoghue | 
Back in the World
by Tobias Wolff | 
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
by Amy Hempel | 
Sing to It
by Amy Hempel | 
The Toughest Indian in the World
by Sherman Alexie | 
Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
by Stephen King | 
Birds of America
by Lorrie Moore |
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.