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    Have Mercy On Us
    Have Mercy On Us
    Have Mercy On Us
    Audiobook4 hours

    Have Mercy On Us

    Written by Lisa Cupolo

    Narrated by Kimberly Austin

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    Each of the ten stories in Have Mercy on Us is an illuminating window into a human life. In the way of all the best fiction, these stories enlarge our understanding of what it means to be alive, with characters who leap off the page. In this award-winning collection, the people are varied in age, race, and origin. An old man travels to a village in Kenya in an attempt to bring his estranged son home; against her mother’s wishes, a young woman attends the funeral of the father she never met, hoping to forge a relationship with her eight siblings; a woman long married to a renowned artist whose infidelity is nearly blatant, takes things into her own hands in a brilliantly realized moment of independence; in an imagined, loving portrait, the writer Zora Neale Hurston is shown near the end of her life in 1948, working as a maid in a motel in Ft. Pierce, Florida. Spare, romantic without being sentimental, these powerful stories are, above all, about love, and the impossible and remarkable ways we yearn for connection. Cupolo’s writing is rich with vision, insight and grace—cause for celebration.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEverand Productions
    Release dateJul 30, 2024
    ISBN9781094468969
    Author

    Lisa Cupolo

    HAVE MERCY ON US, Lisa Cupolo’s debut collection, won the W.S.Porter Prize for short stories. Her work has been published in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Narrative Magazine, The Idaho Review, and others. Lisa has been a paparazzi photographer, an aide worker in Kenya, a script doctor in LA, and a literary publicist at HarperCollins in Toronto. She teaches at Chapman University in Orange, California.

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