'Honest, acerbic, alert, and always dazzling.' - Amitava Kumar,
author of Immigrant, Montana Things to Come and Go showcases the
incomparable talent of Bette Howland in three novellas of stunning
power, beauty, and sustaining humour. 'Birds of a Feather' is a
daughter's story of her extended, first-generation family, the
'big, brassy yak-yakking Abarbanels'. Esti, a merciless, astute
observer, recalls growing up amid (the confusions and difficulties
of) their history, quarrels, judgements, noisy love, and
inescapable bonds of blood. In 'The Old Wheeze', a single mother in
her twenties returns to her sunless apartment after a date at the
ballet. Shifting between four viewpoints - the young woman, the
older professor who took her out, her son, and her son's babysitter
- the story masterfully captures the impossibility of liberating
ourselves from the self. In 'The Life You Gave Me', a woman at the
midpoint of life is called to her father's sickbed. A lament for
all that is forever unsaid and unsayable, the story is 'an
anguished meditation on growing up, growing old and being left
behind, a complaint against time.' (The New York Times) First
published in 1984, Things to Come and Go, Bette Howland's final
book, is a collection of haunting urgency about arrivals and
departures, and the private, insoluble dramas in the lives of three
women. This edition features an introduction by Rumaan Alam,
bestselling author of Leave the World Behind. 'Stunning power and
beauty abound in this book.' - The New York Times 'Howland recalls
the short-story writer Lucia Berlin' - Harper's Magazine
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