They’re Going To Love You

Howrey (The Wanderers) places her story about family relationships within the specialized world of dance, confronting divorce, gender identity, physical and mental limitations, the classical vs. the modern, and becoming a whole person in a fraught world. Robert and Isobel were both professional ballet dancers, and their daughter Carlisle wanted to follow in their footsteps. However, being almost six feet tall and lacking the ballerina’s inner drive, she is struggling to find a new path. Her parents divorced early in her life when Robert admitted he was gay and in love with a dance teacher named James. Isobel has since remarried and had another child, while Robert and James have a lovely apartment in Greenwich Village where Carlisle spends vacations and one delightful summer. Then Carlisle and Robert have a major falling out that results in a 19-year estrangement. When James calls to tell Carlisle that Robert is dying, she must come to terms with the kind of person she wants to be, in order to say a proper good-bye to him.