Bette Howland's illuminating and bracing account of life in a psych ward, which marked her powerful entrance onto the literary scene, now with an introduction by Yiyun Li, author of Where Reasons End.
The three novellas collected together in Things to Come and Go showcase Bette Howland at her best. Written just before she won the MacArthur Genius Fellowship in 1984, these intimate portraits of Jewish family life are by turns equally truthful and bittersweet.