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...point; Amanda's ridiculousness makes her as much a pathetic figure as a comic one. She is moreover, in her own narrow-minded way, a fighter who puts a brave if silly face on things and who stubbornly refuses to admit defeat--which makes the cruelty of her final breakdown, powerfully portrayed by Barker, all the more painful...
Chao's intermittently witty and highly readable Monkey King also deals with mental illness, mysticism and sexual abuse. The narrator, 28-year-old Sally Wang, is a Chinese-American woman who has just suffered a mental breakdown. The book's power comes not from some wild psychological portrait of a mind in turmoil but from its careful detailing of Sally's life at the mental institution in which she attempts a recovery. Sally's family history is also nuanced and believable; small observations add up. Recalling her childhood, Sally says, "Because my parents had not been prepared for a girl...
...Sally's breakdown is prompted partly by her assimilation anxiety as the child of Chinese-American immigrants; by book's end, however, she is a universal character whose struggle for identity anyone can identify with. "At my readings there's been an interesting mix," says Chao. "Out of, say, 35 people, there will be about five Asians. I also thought when I was writing it that it was a 'chick book.' But my audience has been divided about fifty-fifty between men and women...
...This breakdown was a stark contrast to Harvard's previous game, when the defense held No. 1 Maryland to five goals in the first half...
...Amid the breakdown of normal commercial life, shortages of food, fuel and other vital commodities began to grow acute. What could restore order was beyond anyone's guess, although Berisha's resignation seems to be the indispensable start. The Democratic Party leader has been a lightning rod for public rage since the January collapse of more than a dozen get-rich-quick investment schemes that lost the life savings of somewhere between 50% and 90% of the population. Most Albanians believe that Berisha was in cahoots with the operators who ran the pyramid swindles...