The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

Contents

''Reasons to Live''

• "In a Tub"
• "Tonight Is a Favor to Holly"
• "Celia Is Back"
• "Nashville Gone to Ashes"
• "San Francisco"
• "In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried"
• "Beg, Sl Tog, Inc, Cont, Rep"
• "Going"
• "Pool Night"
• "Three Popes Walk into a Bar"
• "The Man in Bogotá"
• "When It's Human Instead of When It's Dog"
• "Why I'm Here"
• "Breathing Jesus"
• "Today Will Be a Quiet Day"

  ''At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom''

• "Daylight Come"
• "The Harvest"
• "The Most Girl Part of You"
• "Rapture of the Deep"
• "Du Jour"
• "Murder"
• "The Day I Had Everything"
• "To Those of You Who Missed Your Connecting Flights Out of O'Hare"
• "And Lead Us Not into Penn Station"
• "In the Animal Shelter"
• "At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom"
• "The Lady Will Have the Slug Louie"
• "Under No Moon"
• "The Center"
• "Tom-Rock Through the Eels"
• "The Rest of God"

  ''Tumble Home''

• "Weekend"
• "Church Cancels Cow"
• "The Children's Party"
• "Sportsman"
• "Housewife"
• "The Annex"
• "The New Lodger"
• "Tumble Home"
• "Notes"

  ''The Dog of the Marriage''

• "Beach Town"
• "Jesus Is Waiting"
• "The Uninvited"
• "Reference #388475848-5"
• "What Were the White Things?"
• "The Dog of the Marriage"
• "The Afterlife"
• "Memoir"
• "Offertory"
• "Notes"