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  • Published: 18 March 2025
  • ISBN: 9798217083107
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00

Where the God of Love Hangs Out

Fiction

  • Amy Bloom




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 new work of interconnected stories illuminates the mysteries of passion, family, and friendship.

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 real people's lives, exploring the changes that love and loss create. 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. In one quartet of interlocking stories, two middle-aged friends, married to others, find themselves surprisingly drawn to each other, risking all while never underestimating the cost. In another linked set of stories, we follow mother and son for thirty years as their small and uncertain family becomes an irresistible tribe.

Insightful, sensuous, and heartbreaking, these stories of passion and disappointment, life and death, capture deep human truths. As The New Yorker has said, "Amy Bloom gets more meaning into individual sentences than most authors manage in whole books."

  • Published: 18 March 2025
  • ISBN: 9798217083107
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00

Praise for Where the God of Love Hangs Out

  • "Beautifully astute...[Bloom] writes about characters who are stunning in their verisimilitude but never really predictable in their behavior....A work of extravagantly fine fiction." --The New York Times
  • "Great [stories]--the ones that don't just reflect life but actually conjure it in full force--can mess up your head and heart. Amy Bloom [writes] stories like that....She'll make you believe you didn't just read these stories, but lived them." --Entertainment Weekly
  • "[Bloom] vividly chronicles the inner lives of people caught in emotional and physical constraints...She writes in beautifully wrought prose, with spunky humor and a flair for delectably eccentric details....Brava, Ms. Bloom. Send us an equally sly, dashing book very soon, please." --The New York Times Book Review

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