Things to Come and Go - 9781529035889

Things to Come and Go - 9781529035889

Pan Macmillan

Things to Come and GoAuthor(s): Bette Howland\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Pan Macmillan, United Kingdom\nImprint: Picador\nISBN-13: 9781529035889, 978-1529035889\nSynopsis\n'Honest, acerbic, alert, and always dazzling.' - Amitava Kumar, author of Immigrant, Montana\n\nThings to Come and Go showcases the incomparable talent of Bette Howland in three novellas of stunning power, beauty, and sustaining humour.\n\nBirds of a Feather is a daughters 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.\n\nIn 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 sons babysitter the story masterfully captures the impossibile

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