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...empty, but your chances are better. Think of it this way: many people gamble away as much at casinos just for fun. For hunting on your own, Flaherty offers these tips: the correct spelling of family members' names is essential, so look for written records with their names and birth dates. Check high school records and Zina's death certificate or obituary. Thus armed, you can explore websites like ancestry.com classmates.com and rootsweb.com At the library, look up the Millers' old addresses in the R.L. Polk directories, which provide census information back to the 1930s, and check the New York...
...didn’t get it either. The story, which appears in Budnitz’s newly-released collection “Nice Big American Baby,” describes a white couple’s abuse-riddled marriage brought to crisis by the wife’s birth of a perfectly black boy. She hasn’t had an affair, but her husband’s suspicions turn to hatred of the ebony infant Gabe, assuaged only when the baby’s appearance abruptly changes to that of the white child they would have expected...
...repeated. “Is this supposed to be some sort of a divine thing? I mean, his name is Gabriel.” At the time, I couldn’t answer, but in the context of this new collection, the answer is more evident: the miraculous birth of a baby named Gabe is just another product of the wondrous and reality-bending imagination of this gifted young writer...
...Fantasy, birth, and appellation are three themes that Budnitz explores thoroughly in this 12-story collection. The first story, entitled “Where We Come From,” features Precious, an impoverished woman in an anonymous third-world nation. (The odd name was chosen by Precious’s mother as a consistent and much-needed reminder that her love for her sons extended to her daughter.) Precious carries a child for three toil-filled years through many attempts to cross the border into the States, in order to produce the “nice big American baby?...
...story, the fantasy of the delayed birth becomes aligned with Precious’ determination to deliver a child whose size she sees as “proof of his American-ness.” These stories stretch from reality, but never very far, and only as amplifications of events occurring in a real universe, as in the diffidence and violence present in the couple of “Miracle...