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You Should Pity Us Instead : Stories by Gustine, Amy, 1970- author; Gustine, Amy, 1970- All the sons of Cain; Gustine, Amy, 1970- Unattended; Gustine, Amy, 1970- Goldene medene; Gustine, Amy, 1970- Uncontaminated soul; Gustine, Amy, 1970- Prisoners do; Gustine, Amy, 1970- Coyote; Gustine, Amy, 1970- AKA Juan; Gustine, Amy, 1970- River Warta; Gustine, Amy, 1970- Half-life is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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222 pages ; 22 cm, \"'Amy Gustine's You Should Pity Us Instead is a devastating, funny, and astonishingly frank collection of stories. Gustine can be brutally honest about the murky calculations, secret dreams and suppressed malice to which most of us never admit, not even to ourselves.'--Karen Russell\"You Should Pity Us Instead is an unbroken spell from first story to last, despite the enormous range of subjects and landscapes, sufferings and joys it explores.\"--Laura Kasischke\"Amy Gustine's stories cross impossible borders both physical and moral: a mother looking for her kidnapped son sneaks into Gaza, an Ellis Island inspector mourning his lost love plays God at the boundary between old world and new. Brave, essential, thrilling, each story in You Should Pity Us Instead takes us to those places we've never dared visit before.\"--Ben StroudYou Should Pity Us Instead explores some of our toughest dilemmas: the cost of Middle East strife at its most intimate level, the likelihood of God considered in day-to-day terms, the moral stakes of family obligations, and the inescapable fact of mortality. Amy Gustine exhibits an extraordinary generosity toward her characters, instilling

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Author

Gustine, Amy, 1970- author; Gustine, Amy, 1970- All the sons of Cain; Gustine, Amy, 1970- Unattended; Gustine, Amy, 1970- Goldene medene; Gustine, Amy, 1970- Uncontaminated soul; Gustine, Amy, 1970- Prisoners do; Gustine, Amy, 1970- Coyote; Gustine, Amy, 1970- AKA Juan; Gustine, Amy, 1970- River Warta; Gustine, Amy, 1970- Half-life

Publisher

Louisville, KY : Sarabande Books

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781941411193

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Short Stories, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.77 / 5 (236 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14