Good-bye, Son and Other Stories, Janet Lewis's only collection of short fiction, was first published in 1946, but remains as quietly haunting today as it was then. Set in small communities of the upper Midwest and northern California in the '30s and '40s, these mid-century gems focus on the quiet cycles connecting youth with age, despair and hope, life and death. A mother's encounters with her deceased son, an aging woman sitting with the...