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...that their children would simply grow out of it. That message infuriates specialists like Shipon-Blum, who agrees that children with untreated SM may eventually manage to communicate in social situations but insists that without addressing the precipitating factors behind the mutism, debilitating anxieties are likely to persist into adulthood. "They may develop methods of coping, but are they happy and functioning?" she asks...
DEEP SOUTH SALLY MANN It was with haunting, sometimes sexually charged shots of her children, maturing enigmatically in the Virginia hill country, that Mann first gained notice in the late 1980s. Some years later she moved into territory even more shadowy than the boundary between childhood and adulthood: the Southern landscape. Through darkroom accidents and her use of 19th century glass-plate developing techniques, these pictures come to us fogged, scratched and indistinct, like her portrait of a wounded tree, above. Her mesmerizing book is not so much a portrait of the South as it is a dream about...
...Inheritance” also presents the far more personal story of two sisters. These two sisters, Junan and Yinan, grow up together during China’s Cultural Revolution. The elder, Junan, is more practical and less emotional than the younger Yinan. As their story progresses from childhood to adulthood, and as Yinan and her sister’s husband Ling begin an affair, Chang dramatically juxtaposes their own family troubles with China’s political foibles. The story is told by Junan’s daughter Hong, who assumes an omniscient tone as she pieces together her family...
...determinism. Families are full of stories of the inexhaustible infant who grew up to be an entrepreneur, the phlegmatic child who never really showed much go. But if it's genes that run the show, what accounts for the Shipps, who didn't bestir themselves until the cusp of adulthood? And what, more tellingly, explains identical twins--precise genetic templates of each other who ought to be temperamentally identical but often exhibit profound differences in the octane of their ambition...
Which is more than a little surprising, given Fingleton’s boyhood. The grim realities of his youth—riddled with alcoholism and poverty—belie the enormous list of accomplishments he has acquired in adulthood: author, screenwriter, film producer, former champion swimmer, and graduate of our own dear alma mater. Consider the trajectory of Fingleton’s life and meaning is restored to the cliché title of his autobiography and its 2003 film adaptation, “Swimming Upstream...