Evvie Kurtz remembers everything.

Evvie Kurtz has Alzheimer’s disease.

Handsome is Evvie’s story, told in her own voice: How she grew up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, a scholarship girl at one of the city’s fanciest day schools. How she made a name for herself as a journalist. How she met and married her husband. How she loved him for all his faults. And how she came to the decision to leave him.

Evvie will forget her story.

You will not.

PRAISE FOR EZRA PALMER'S CATBIRDS

“I read it with the intensity with which one might read the instructions on how to operate a defibrillator while a friend is having a heart attack. It’s that good.” — Peg Tyre, New York Times bestselling author of “The Trouble With Boys”

“Pulsing with insight, wit, feeling, and mysteries… Catbirds examines frayed family bonds with fresh power and insight. EDITOR’S PICK.” —BookLife

“An intimate and affecting family saga of loss and betrayal.” —Kirkus Reviews

"This is, for me, what literature is all about.” — Netgalley reviewer

"Prose that is cadenced like poetry and mesmerising once you fall into its rhythm." — Netgalley reviewer

"Compelling, magnetic prose... a stylistic high-wire act which the writer balances with confidence." — Netgalley reviewer