Tell Everyone I Said Hi

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Poignant, fresh, and convincing, the stories in Tell Everyone I Said Hi portray the emotionally complicated lives of women who smell of hairspray and beer, landscapers who worry about their livers, and people who remain loyal to sports teams that always lose. Displaced by circumstances both in and out of their control, the characters are lost in their own surroundings, thwarted by misguided aspirations and long-buried disappointments, but fully open to the possibihty that they will again find their way.
"Chad Simpson writes with a piercing tenderness and sadness about loss and helplessness and the impossible decisions that we face every day, and the complexity of the compromises we offer the world, and ourselves, in response."—Jim Shepard
"Chad Simpson's TeU Everyone I Said Hi is my kind of book. James Wright once beautifully asked. Where is the sea that once solved the whole / loneliness of the Midwest? The line kept bubbling up in my mind as I read these unpretentious and... Tovább

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Poignant, fresh, and convincing, the stories in Tell Everyone I Said Hi portray the emotionally complicated lives of women who smell of hairspray and beer, landscapers who worry about their livers, and people who remain loyal to sports teams that always lose. Displaced by circumstances both in and out of their control, the characters are lost in their own surroundings, thwarted by misguided aspirations and long-buried disappointments, but fully open to the possibihty that they will again find their way.
"Chad Simpson writes with a piercing tenderness and sadness about loss and helplessness and the impossible decisions that we face every day, and the complexity of the compromises we offer the world, and ourselves, in response."—Jim Shepard
"Chad Simpson's TeU Everyone I Said Hi is my kind of book. James Wright once beautifully asked. Where is the sea that once solved the whole / loneliness of the Midwest? The line kept bubbling up in my mind as I read these unpretentious and deeply moving stories. We're in the Midwest— Chad Simpson's Midwest—a place of broken hearts and missed opportunities, flooded basements and faulty wiring. The real stuff, it's all here."
—Peter Orner, author, Love and Shame and Love
"Chad Simpson is clever, compassionate, and refreshingly nuanced in his perceptions of the world, and his stories enchant with both style and substance. Tell Everyone I Said Hi returns again and again to fractured families, to orphans and widows, the strange and the estranged, and each story offers new insight into loneliness and love. Each story is a delight."—Justin Torres, author. We the Animals
raised m Monmouth, Illinois, and Logansport, Indiana. His work has appeared in McSweeney's Quarterly, Esquire, American Short Fiction, The Sun, and many other print and online publications. He is the recipient of a fellowship in prose from the Illinois Arts Council and scholarships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' conferences. He teaches at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where he received the Philip Green Wright/ Lombard College Prize for Distinguished Teaching in 2010. Vissza