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...parents who feared their children would not have guidance to make judgments about college and careers. Even six seemed too few to students puzzling over their prospects. "We have a million decisions to make, and there's no one here to talk to," complains Jared Mariconi, a senior. Mary Ann O'Toole, sole counselor at Hayward High, sees even more serious problems: "We've had two student deaths this year, and we don't even have time to talk to the kids...
...Ann Rogers is cracking up, and not all that slowly. She is married to a bright, fairly sympathetic fellow who restores houses, and she is a successful partner in a business that makes videos of weddings. Makes, in fact, seamlessly joyous videos of weddings often awkward and sour, which is an art, and one she is good at. But her hobbies, shoplifting clothes from Bergdorf and ingesting methamphetamine, which she does quite often from the tip of her jackknife blade, don't foretell a long and happy life. She is a diabetic, in addition, and her meth addiction worsens...
...plot is dreary and predictable in its basics: neurasthenic young woman falls apart. That is, in fact, what happens; Ann Rogers crumbles and collapses. Why does this matter? Why does author Harrison's novel (her second, after the much praised Thicker Than Water) grab the reader by the throat? Is it the hook of that voyeuristic first scene in the taxi? Are we waiting for something like that striptease to happen again...
...early days of the art and specialized in elaborate portraits of dead children in confirmation finery. A meningitis plague brought him prosperity. He was a journeyman, but his son, her father, became a famed photographic artist, whose morbid specialty was a long series of nude photographs of Ann, before puberty, arranged as if dead. As the adult Ann spirals out of control, a big retrospective show of her father's work is set to open...
...worships "God's creation" in her own unstructured fashion. Rosie, 38, drifted into the Hindu-influenced Self- Realization Fellowship. Chris, 34, picked Unitarianism, which offered some of Christianity's morality without its dogma. Theresa, 36, spent five years exploring the "Higher Power" in 12-step self-help programs. Ann, 30, called off her wedding when her nonpracticing Jewish fiance embraced Orthodoxy, a crisis that "sparked a whole new journey...