The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife

In The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, a middle-aged Upper West Side Doctors’ wife named Marjorie Taub is devoted to mornings at the Whitney, afternoons at MOMA and evenings at BAM. Plunged into a mid-life crisis of Medea-like proportions, she’s shaken out of her lethargy by the reappearance of a fascinating and somewhat mysterious childhood friend.

“Mr. Busch has swum straight into the mainstream and stays comfortably afloat there.” — Ben Brantley, New York Times