Abigail Thomas

A memoir about aging, family, creativity, tragedy, friendship, and the richness of life. How to accept, appreciate, enjoy? Who are our most trusted, valuable companions and what will we do for them? When you've given up, when you least expect it, there it is.

With her own special brand of delicate, elliptical, and humorous fiction, Abigail Thomas offers another extraordinary visit with people she knows far better than they know themselves. There's Walter, newly abandoned by his wife; there's Edith, a fiftyish virgin; there's Bunny, taking care of her mother and her mother's boyfriend; and there's Belle, whose married lover dies in the hallway wearing her dead husband Herb's pajama top. Blindly, they encounter...

Lily, a dog that likes everything in its place and the same activities every day, is scared and upset when moving men come and take everything away.

A collection of 12 stories about women of all ages. They reflect the evolution of female values, from the days of obligatory virginity before marriage to the liberated present. A debut in general fiction by a writer of children's books.

A young boy and his grandmother get up very early and watch the morning activity in their neighborhood.