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Notes
“not even the rain has such small hands” by E. E. Cummings from “somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond.”
“blue reef-scarred sea” is from Joseph Conrad, in The Shadow Line: A Confession, part 1.
The doll tornado is an installation titled Toynado at Elsewhere, the art museum/thrift store in Greensboro, North Carolina. The creator of the piece is Kim Holleman.
The painting is Shock and Awe 20 by Arnold Mesches.
Cloudland is a painting by Gloria Vanderbilt. The story “Cloudland” owes a significant debt to the nonfiction book Butterbox Babies: Baby Sales, Baby Deaths, the Scandalous Story of the Ideal Maternity Home, by the Canadian journalist Bette Cahill. She published the horrifying and complex true story in 1992 and, with new revelations, in 2007.
Water Damage is a painting by William Wegman.
Stories Previously Published
“Sing to It”: O, The Oprah Magazine
“The Orphan Lamb”: Harper’s, Life Is Short—Art Is Shorter, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011
“A Full-Service Shelter”: Tin House, The Pushcart Prize XXXVIII (2014)
“The Doll Tornado”: Subtropics
“I Stay with Syd”: Tin House, tenth anniversary issue
“The Chicane”: Washington Square Review, The Best American Short Stories 2017
“Greed”: Ploughshares, guest-edited by Elizabeth Strout
“Fort Bedd”: Subtropics
“Four Calls in the Last Half Hour”: Harvard Review
“The Correct Grip”: O, The Oprah Magazine
“The Second Seating”: The Harvard Advocate
“Moonbow”: The American Scholar
“Equivalent”: The Southampton Review
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Names: Hempel, Amy, author. Title: Sing to it / Amy Hempel.
Description: First Scribner hardcover edition. | New York : Scribner, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018045523 | ISBN 9781982109110 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781982109127 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781982109134 (ebook)
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