Word: daughterã
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...narrator watching the prison guard collect the food requested, which includes drug-laced baked goods; a spontaneous game of “strip fondue” with friends from the office; a mother testing whether she can taste pasta in another person’s mouth—her daughter??s. The Devil’s Larder is a series of creative exercises, a chance for Crace to illuminate these strange but deeply felt moments bit by bit, in simple prose that contrasts starkly with the richness of the world he portrays...
...writing), the translator and the daughter (an archivist and the narrator). So basically it’s about language, obsessions with textual characters, a threesome with your mom and lots of paper. A major part of the novel is the family story, typically dysfunctional and told through the daughter??s memories triggered by the diary entries...
...daughter??s soccer practice,” said Richard Freierman, one of Walser’s managers. “She’s going to be a lot happier than she was last night...
...book, not in their own right, but as anchors in Fox’s sea of impermanence, however unfit for the job they may have been. Fox’s mother is portrayed as unrelentingly cruel and unstable, a woman who hurled a glass of water at her young daughter??s back and begrudged her grown daughter a previous gift of a picture of her grandfather. “How could it be that Elsie was enough of an organic being to have carried me in her belly for a term?” Fox wonders. Her father...
Kato works both in the United States and in Japan and recently received the Reverend Chang Imm Tan Award for Personal Courage. Kato has lectured at colleges including Smith, Amherst, Clark and Harvard, and has established a Memorial Scholarship Fund in her daughter??s name. She has also worked with the Japanese government, which has now recognized domestic violence as a crime of society...