{"product_id":"things-to-come-and-go","title":"Bette Howland: Things to Come and Go [2023] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Reminiscent of Edna O'Brien, with shades too of Jean Rhys.' -\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThings to Come and Go\u003c\/i\u003e showcases the incomparable talent of Bette Howland in three novellas of stunning power, beauty, and sustaining humour.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Birds of a Feather'\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cb\u003e'The Old Wheeze'\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cb\u003e'The Life You Gave Me'\u003c\/b\u003e, 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.' (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst published in 1984, \u003ci\u003eThings to Come and Go\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith an introduction by Rumaan Alam, bestselling author of\u003ci\u003e Leave the World Behind\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Howland, Bette","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46761355903315,"sku":"9781529035926","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/howland-bette-bette-howland-things-to-come-and-go-2023-paperback-9781529035926-59465862906195.jpg?v=1728795907","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/things-to-come-and-go","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}