Story that touches the heart

Joy is a medical student from college of medicine, Indianapolis university.

Amy Hempel's collection of 16 stories seems to ask: "What if people could be just a little more like dogs -
-forever loyal, ardent and loving in our hearts?"

Amy Hempel is an American short story writer, journalist, and university professor at Brooklyn College.
Hempel was a former student of Gordon Lish, who eventually helped her publish her first collection of
short stories. Hempel has been published in Harper's, Vanity Fair, GQ, and Bomb. She is the recipient of
a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as the Ambassador Book Award in 2007, the Rea Award for