Things That Glow in the Night - A Short Story Collection

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A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2017 &ldquo;An ingeniously plotted Dickensian story filled with suspense, surprises, and ultimately satisfaction.&#160;It reminds us, who may have forgotten, why reading is such high entertainment and pleasure.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist, starred review &#160; &ldquo;Riveting . . . This first in a new series will capture the hearts and minds of readers and history buffs alike . . . Avi&rsquo;s examination of the plight of the desperately poor is worthy of Dickens. Impossible to put down.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews, starred review &#160; &ldquo;Avi&rsquo;s ability to write compelling historical fiction is evident here, and readers will want to stay tuned for the next installment.&rdquo; &mdash;School Library Journal &#160; &ldquo;With dry wit and a strong Dickensian flavor, this first installment in Avi&rsquo;s Oliver Cromwell Pitts saga has an 18th-century British boy finding misfortune everywhere he turns . . . Every cliffhanger-ending chapter will leave readers on the edge of their seats, wondering how Oliver will manage to survive his latest dilemma. Brimming with fast-paced action, evocative settings, and villains, this book reveals yet another side of Avi&rsquo;s talent.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly, starred review&#160; &#160; &ldquo;This action-packed Oliver Twist&ndash;like tale is carefully orchestrated, with short chapters, cliff hangers, lush descriptions, and historical details neatly woven in throughout . . . An entertaining, old-fashioned, page-turning adventure.&rdquo; &mdash;The Horn Book &#160; &ldquo;Colorful rogues, highwaymen and rotten magistrates populate the Dickensian plot, punctuated with clever cliff-hangers, endless close calls and bits of wisdom. Here a Newbery Medalist again delivers a page-turner, steeped in provocative moral questions.&rdquo; &mdash;San Francisco Chronicle &#160; &ldquo;There&rsquo;s danger at every turn and cliffhangers galore in this un-put-downable Dickens story&mdash;a marvelous read.&rdquo; &mdash;San Antonio Express-News &#160; &ldquo;Entertaining . . . Engaging.&rdquo; &mdash;Buffalo News &#160; &ldquo;Full of life and Dickensian details, this is historical fiction at its most compelling.&rdquo; &mdash;Providence Journal &#160; &ldquo;Master-writer Avi has once again crafted a seamless novel of intrigue, suspense, and adventure that will have older kids ripping through ever page of this fast-paced, outstanding novel.&rdquo; &mdash;The Port Huron Times Herald &#160; &ldquo;The titular 12-year-old narrator of Newbury Medalist Avi&#39;s book The Unexpected Life of Oliver Cromwell Pitts may be small for his age (which lands him in trouble on more than one occasion), but the plucky lad is no stranger to out-sized exploits. The story, set in 1724 England, is a rip-roaring adventure tale with thieves, kidnappings and some truly awful bad guys &mdash; and wonderful chapter titles like, "In Which I Introduce Myself after Which I Immediately Plunge into a Desperate Situation." Avi, one of the great writers for young people working today, blends Pitts&#39; fictional story with historical figures of the age, throwing in plenty of juicy details about England&#39;s terrible social history along the way. Young readers will be introduced to injustices of the past while still moving quickly through the pages, thanks, in part, to Avi&#39;s short, cliff-hanger chapters.&rdquo; &mdash;The Daily American &#160;

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If there’s a Howland bandwagon (and there should be), hold me a seat, or I’ll stand.
 —Peter Orner

Howland creates stark and strange works of genius, portraying the complexities of family relationships as beautifully as she portrays her narrators’ insecurities, judgments, and anxieties…. This is a collection to savor, and Howland is an author to celebrate.—Publishers Weekly, starred review

Loving, lacerating sketches… With her flexible stance toward reality, her eye for the amusing, curious, minutiae of existence, and her tonal range, Howland recalls the short-story writer Lucia Berlin. 
―Abigail Deutsch, Harper's


An insanely sane mix of the hard-to-fight city in the ’70s and the accidental poetry of families stumbling through time.
—Robert Sullivan, Vogue

The recent celebration of fellow forgotten female artists, the short story writer Lucia Berlin, championed by Lydia Davis, or the painter Himla af Klint, showcased at the Guggenheim, reminds us how necessary it is to restore these visionaries, to help reshape our collective artistic history…. Expanding the canon to make room for Howland enhances our reading of the literature she’s in conversation with. This includes, notably, the stories of working-class America by her contemporary Raymond Carver. —Jenessa Abrams, Guernica


Like Bellow, Howland was a bard of Chicago, even at its most alarming…. A voice at once gritty and lyrical, despairing even while tenaciously holding onto hope. That Howland’s work is back with us again shows that hope won out, after all. —Diane Cole, Jewish Week


The stories of Bette Howland return to you like friends met once in a dream—strange, familiar, roughing up the texture of your days. These are stories that defy classification, but seem as fresh and vital as though they were written last week. The revival of Howland’s work is one of the best things to have happened in recent memory.—Madeleine Watts, McNally Jackson

Bette Howland hit me like a meteor. She writes with the deft narrative voice of Grace Paley and Eudora Welty's fidelity of place, yet her work fell out of print. This collection brings her back, and we’re all lucky.—Andrew Kay, East City Bookshop

“The rediscovery of Bette Howland as a major American writer not only feels just and right, it was, in retrospect, inevitable. A voice this unique simply can’t be forgotten or ignored forever. Her words, though in many cases decades old, remain refreshing and vital. Her concerns are our concerns. In many ways she came to us when we needed her most.”—Jeff Martin, Magic City Books


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