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Journal Article
2020 Doris Betts Fiction Winner: LITTLE THINGS
2021
Overview
On Saturday mornings in the spring, he would leave the house just before daylight to drive out to the farm to check any horses due to foal. On the way to the farm, they usually stopped at a house or two to see any of his patients who couldnt go all weekend without a look - maybe a first-time mother with a newborn going yellow or a surgery patient just released from the hospital with swelling growing up around an infection. Carol's mother said it was uncouth to treat another person's house as your own, coming over uninvited and asking for a glass of milk when you felt like it, but she would sometimes let Carol go down there if a school friend asked. Mrs. Conway, whose husband had moved out to Texas the year after Petty was born, used to have a habit of dropping Petty at their house to play with Foster Junior for hours on end, which their mother seemed to tolerate for no good reason.
