How to Hold a Woman
Billy Lombardo’s How to Hold a Woman is a one of the wisest books about loss and the numbness of grief that I have ever read. A family faces the unbearable, and as readers we’re taken to the edge of the abyss, surveying the emotional fallout. A smart and moving account of how people cope with every parent’s nightmare, Lombardo’s achievement is in arranging his narrative around the new unspeakable hole in the center of their lives, and deftly takes us through the heart-wrenching, heart-healing aftermath as the family stumbles past their bewilderment and grief to what lies beyond. .
- CJ Hribal, author of The Company Car and The Clouds in Memphis
Books by Billy
- How to Hold a Woman
available for purchase on Amazon.com - The Logic
of a Rose: Chicago Stories
available for purchase on Amazon.com - Meanwhile, Roxy Mourns
available for purchase from EM Press - The Man with Two Arms
Due for publication by Overlook Press when MLB pitchers and catchers report for duty in February 2010.
- The Day of the Palindrome
Polyphony HS