{"product_id":"things-to-come-and-go-by-bette-howland-9781529035926","title":"Things to Come and Go","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReminiscent of Edna O'Brien, with shades too of Jean Rhys.\u003c\/em\u003e - The Irish Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThings to Come and Go\u003c\/em\u003e showcases the incomparable talent of Bette Howland in three novellas of stunning power, beauty, and sustaining humour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBirds of a Feather\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Old Wheeze\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Life You Gave Me\u003c\/em\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 \u003cem\u003ean anguished meditation on growing up, growing old and being left behind, a complaint against time.\u003c\/em\u003e (The New York Times)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1984, \u003cem\u003eThings to Come and Go\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith an introduction by Rumaan Alam, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eLeave the World Behind\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244779843820,"sku":"9781529035926","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529035926-things-to-come-and-go-1.jpg?v=1788013313","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/things-to-come-and-go-by-bette-howland-9781529035926","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}