Word: bond
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Elizabeth Strout tests the strength of that umbilical bond in her first novel, Amy and Isabelle (Random House; 304 pages; $22.95). In the small New England town of Shirley Falls, Isabelle Goodrow is a single mother with a shameful secret: her daughter Amy, 16, is illegitimate. As if in atonement for her youthful fling, Isabelle is now, in her early 30s, the image of propriety, maintaining perfect posture and an immaculate French twist. She craves respectability but is too poor for the upper echelon of Shirley Falls and too proud to befriend her co-workers at the mill. Amy shares...
...Harvard Management Company (HMC), which invests Harvard's endowment, valued at $13 billion in June, anticipated the monetary union as it developed its bond and equity strategy over the past several years. Now that the day of unification has arrived HMC has few changes to make...
This was Lasaga's second arrest in the past two months. At the time of his most recent arrest, he was under house arrest for an upcoming federal trial stemming from charges of possessing child pornography. As a condition of his release on $50,000 bond, Lasaga was to have no contact with children...
...terms of Lasaga's release on $50,000 bond stipulated that he not contact any children for the duration of the case...
When we keep this in mind, writer Mark O'Donnell emerges as a true gift. A humorist and playwright, O'Donnell has mastered the art of conveying the bittersweet. In his first novel, Getting Over Homer, O'Donnell wryly traced a twin's failing quest to find a bond similar to the one he shared with his sibling. In his second novel, Let Nothing You Dismay (Knopf; 193 pages; $22), O'Donnell is once again obsessed with a young man's search for wholeness, and here too the author's witticisms flow felicitously...