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...outweighs her box office. She gets play in the press because, frankly, she's a kick. She's usually depicted as golfing, cooking, cussing, drinking and smoking (or some combination thereof), while the accompanying photos display a woman of almost otherworldly glamour, a lone Lana Turner among the current crop of Winona Ryder clones...
Karr's coming-of-age chronicle follows a well-beaten path, from worries about fitting in at high school to the belief that most of the classmates there are losers and jerks. Drugs crop up as an antidote to boredom, and Karr re-creates in detail a number of trippy larks that she shared with fellow users. "Guess you kind of had to be there," a friend says after hearing Karr's account of one such adventure. Cherry does not quite get you there...
...Will the coyotes survive, the farm be freed from its toxic crop, the insects be allowed to regulate their own population balances? Did God make little green organic apples? Kingsolver doesn't bother much with suspense in unfolding these matters; right thinking may seldom triumph in the real world, but it's her novel and she'll run it the way she sees fit. Her heroines are genuinely interesting, however, even when they're patiently teaching lessons to the benighted, and the author sometimes pokes a little gentle fun at their high-mindedness. When Deanna laboriously captures a moth...
...rhetoric floating around the annual Nobel Prize announcements, it's easy to lose sight of a simple truth: The laureates win because they've done something that has changed our everyday lives (or has the potential to), often in surprisingly simple ways. Here's our guide to the latest crop of prizewinners, and what they're really being lauded...
...have a limited tolerance for the history of real families other than our own. The exceptions to this rule crop up when the clan in question is particularly influential or glamorous--the Kennedys, Rothschilds, folks of that ilk--or when a family chronicler comes along who can tell tales so irresistibly engaging that the boundary between personal lore and public interest dissolves. That is what Nomi Eve accomplishes in The Family Orchard (Knopf; 316 pages; $25), a first novel in the form of an extended genealogy of the author's forebears, covering some 160 years...