Where the God of Love Hangs Out, Amy Bloom
Where the God of Love Hangs Out, Amy Bloom
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Where the God of Love Hangs Out
Fiction

Author: Amy Bloom

Narrator: Lisa Flanagan, Benjamin Charles

Unabridged: 5 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/18/2025


Synopsis

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."

About Amy Bloom

Amy Bloom is the author of Away, a novel, and two collections of prize-winning stories: Come to Me and A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You. She is a psychotherapist and teaches creative writing at Yale University, where she is a Fellow of Calhoun College.


Reviews

Goodreads review by da on March 30, 2018

The fine writing and audiobook reader compelled me to finish this. But for all the 'love the unloveable' vibe I got from it, for all of my really wanting to love this book, I just couldn't. The characters had interesting moments, but mostly I didn't like them, I felt sorry for them, and they depress......more

Goodreads review by christa on February 14, 2010

DISCLAIMER I'm not much on short stories, and I'll admit that I'm using a generalization here, but so many of them are too something. Like contrived edginess for the sake of being edgy. Like a tribal tattoo on the small of your back, but you don't know what the symbol means. And other times they just......more

Goodreads review by Kathie on July 24, 2015

Amazing. Does that say enough? I picked it up, I read the first sentence, and that was all she wrote. Well, no, she wrote much, much more, and I loved it all. In particular, I love the story series that started with "Sleepwalking" and ended with "Fort Useless and Fort Ridiculous". The stories stay with......more

Goodreads review by Vanessa on April 09, 2010

More like 4.5 stars. This is easily the best book I've read this year, maybe the best book I've read in a while. This is the kind of book you buy even though you have read the library's copy because you want to keep it close to you. There are a handful of stand-alone stories and two sets of four sto......more

Goodreads review by Bookmarks Magazine on February 08, 2010

Bloom's background in psychology gives her amazing insight into the human psyche, which she uses to full advantage in these lovely, mesmerizing stories, written with sympathy and wisdom. The critics seemed genuinely surprised that there could be any uncharted territory in the world of love, but Bloo......more


Quotes

"Evokes E. L. Doctorow's Ragtime in its playful fusion of fiction and fantasy and its exuberant tone." —San Francisco Chronicle, on Away