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You Should Pity Us Instead

par Amy Gustine

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""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 them with a thriving, vivid presence.Amy Gustine's short fiction has appeared in the Kenyon Review, North American Review, Black Warrior Review, the Massachusetts Review, and many other places. She lives in Ohio"--… (plus d'informations)
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Really, really good for a debut. It's probably more around 4 stars but because there are only a few reviews and the book deserves a lot more attention, I gave it 5. I was captivated by every single story in the collection and the prose was beautiful. Some of the stories were disturbing and others emotional, but they were all really interesting and the characters were very well written. ( )
  ninagl | Jan 7, 2023 |
Mostly interesting if not quite exciting group of stories. There were a few gems, and a few that I really thought could have benefited from a longer length. All of the stories have the common thread of featuring lonely outsiders, which I definitely appreciated. ( )
  Katie_Roscher | Jan 18, 2019 |
Overall, very good collection with a couple of missteps. Gustine is best when she finds grace and mystery in the most ordinary circumstances - raising a child as an atheist amid religious friends and neighbors, an adopted son who is expected to care for his terminally ill mother. The final story Half-Life about a young woman who was raised in foster care becomes a nanny for the granddaughter of the judge who separated her from her biological family was a mindblower. ( )
  laurenbufferd | Apr 30, 2017 |
I really enjoyed this collection of short stories, somehow the author managed to be both tragic and hilarious. ( )
  BrittanyLyn | Jun 22, 2016 |
I was definitely wowed by this—the thing I kept thinking was, these are really grown up stories. This is kind of why I don't read much YA, and I know I'm painting with an overly broad brush but I trust the folks who know what I mean to make the distinction here. These are stories of really uncomfortable complexity, ambiguity, that sense you get when you've lived long enough to realize that there are no pat resolutions to our story arcs. The themes she revisits—parenting and being someone's child, often simultaneously; loneliness; guilt; ways we compensate for what life has offered us so far—are treated with a lot of intelligence and sensitivity. ( )
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""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 them with a thriving, vivid presence.Amy Gustine's short fiction has appeared in the Kenyon Review, North American Review, Black Warrior Review, the Massachusetts Review, and many other places. She lives in Ohio"--

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