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...Their view of you will change forever," Aunt Ruru explains kindly to her newly-out niece, Frazier. "You will be reduced to an object. It's not fair but that's the way it is. If you wear a purple skirt people will say it's because you're a lesbian. You own an art gallery. They'll say that gay people are always artistic...
...Aunt Tam's struggle with her would-be oppressor in Paradise of the Blind epitomizes the endurance of victims in modern Vietnam and their determination to survive with dignity. More a survival novel than a war novel, Paradise, in fact, completely passes over the years of American intervention in Vietnam. While some of author Duong Thu Huong's other works have shown war from the front lines--where she has had personal experience--this novel depicts the war at home and within, north...
...most intriguing and powerful character in the story is not Hang, but her father's sister, Aunt Tam. To Hang, Aunt Tam is generous and caring, yet frightening and overbearing; her presence further complicates Hang's short adolescence. The peculiar relationship between Tam and Hang's mother escalates into a rivalry to perpetuate the separate family lines. In Aunt Tam's character, the author manages to capture the essence of bitterness and hope in survival...
...incoherence and melodrama (about a Vietnamese immigrant seeking her ex-G.I. father), may speak to you. If you live in the world most Americans inhabit, you will probably find it windy, vacant, awkwardly staged and ineptly acted, except by the superb Debra Monk as the girl's sardonic aunt...
...bring down the house with his boisterous performance as Teddy Brewster (or Teddy Roosevelt). Gardner's impersonations of TR includes welltimed bugle blowing, excited exclamations of "Bully, just bully!," and an endearing fondness for cabinet meetings, secret proclamations against Japan and digging graves in the cellar for his aunt's latest victims...