Things That Pass for Love: Stories
“I love this book. The stories in Amend's Things That Pass for Love are such good company that I found myself reading more and more slowly so that the collection wouldn't end. Amend's voice is so compelling, easeful and polished you feel that the stories almost rise up off the page and tell themselves. And, as we all know, the hardest thing a writer can do is make it look easy.
—Alison Smith author of Name All the Animals
”Allison Amend is a gifted storyteller-no, more than gifted. Her writing is powerful enough to create its own kind of weather. Her characters are so real it's as if you could reach between the pages and shake hands with them. If you want to read good stories, read this book.”
—Hannah Tinti, author of Animal Crackers, and editor of One-Story Magazine.
Stanford Alum, Allison Amend, was born in Chicago, Illinois on a day when the Cubs beat the Mets 2-0. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. While there, she learned never to live downwind from a pig farm and how to put English on a cue ball. She lives in New York, writing and teaching fiction.