Hum: Stories
Winner of the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize and the Truman Capote Prize. Foreward by Rikki Ducornet
"Hum is disquieting and masterful, emblematic of a book given over to the study of couplings come undone...these stories are wonderfully strange, a strangeness both compelling and convincing." Rikki Ducornet
Thirteen years after the publication of her award-winning story collection, The Girl in the Fall-Away Dress, Michelle Richmond returns to the short story form with Hum, a collection of eleven stories that examine love, lust, and loyalty from surprising angles.
“You can’t hide from Michelle Richmond. She knows your secrets, she gets under your skin. Few writers expose the mysteries of relationships–and love itself–as cannily, and with as much honest and deadly humor. Each story is a unique and unexpected journey...Hum is an exceptional collection.” Peter Orner, author of Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridgeand Esther Stories
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Peter Orner, author of The Esther Stories wrote:These stories are mesmerizing--sensual, beautifully imagined tales that lead us from the familiar to the intimately strange. Richmond writes as if she lives comfortably in this world and another dreamy, concurrent dimension that is achingly just beyond our ken.
Thaisa Frank, author of A Brief History of Camouflage wrote:You can't hide from Michelle Richmond. She knows your secrets, she gets under your skin...an exceptional collection.
The Coachella Review, Heather Scott Pardington wrote:Michelle Richmond's extraordinary imagination leads readers into grounded yet fantastic worlds in which men walk on water, a woman marries a scaled sea creature, and couples take journeys that mirror their interior life. Richmond writers elegantly and convincingly from the point of view of either gender--a feat unto itself. And her characters reveal her wide and expansive mind. Hum is a collection not to be missed.
Hum is a collection of stories centered on couples, marriages,temptation and desire. Richmond wants us to think about why we fall inlove, how it changes us, and how we change others when we offer to carefor them. Richmond renders small oddities with such humanity that theyseem like plausible realities that could exist in tandem with our own
