Reasons to live

It is always *earthquake weather* in Amy Hempel's California. a landscape where everything can change without warning, Traditional resources - home, parents, lovers, friends, even willpower - are not dependable. And so the characters in these short, compelling stories have learned to depend on small triumphs of wit, irony, and spirit.
A widow, surrounded by a small menagerie, comes to terms with her veterinarian husband's death; a young woman entertains a dying friend with trivia and reaffirms her own life, in the aftermath of an abortion, a woman compulsively knits a complete wardrobe for a friend's baby. Buffeted by rude shocks, thwarted by misconnections, the characters recognize that anythin can finally become a reason to live.

Utdrag ur boken:
"Son," the doctor said, "you shouldn't be alive".

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