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...East Wind Melts the Ice, her fourth and latest book, is a spirited and graceful example of how to live Japanese, you could say, without losing an American accent. Dalby began composing this 10th century-style pillow book about her 21st century Californian life four years ago, creating a diary of the seasons divided into the 72 five-day segments of an ancient Chinese almanac. She even wrote parts of the book first in Japanese. On its surface, her gardener's journal is a casual, wandering set of two- or three-page mini-essays on mushrooms, ruby-throated hummingbirds...
...deeper than such passing curiosities, what Dalby is really doing is reminding us that Japan and California are on much the same latitude, and are almost the same size. You can buy Californian oranges in Japan nowadays as easily as Japanese persimmons in California. Sometimes-as in the Memoirs of a Geisha movie, on which Dalby worked as a consultant, and where classic Japanese forms had to be adapted to suit modern tastes-the cross-pollination produces what Dalby calls a "sushi sandwich." But often, as in the "Brie-cheese maki" she puts inside her daughter's Berkeley lunch...
...Simon explains. "I decided to join a tennis club instead, which was, at one point, my only contact with mankind." While the house is decorated to resemble a country retreat in, say, Connecticut, Simon's seven-room Manhattan duplex is just the opposite: sleekly art deco, almost Californian, with a sun-flooded atrium at penthouse level, offering sweeping views in three directions of Park Avenue and the city skyline...
...significantly less annoying Bridget Jones, Winslet is appropriately frazzled and even Diaz finds her niche, playing up the blonde, Californian cookie-cutter to an entertaining degree...
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