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Halfway through her powerfully affecting novel One True Thing (Random House; 289 pages; $22), Anna Quindlen pauses, swabs her forehead with a bandanna (so the wrung-out reader imagines) and sums up: "Our parents are never people to us, never, they're always character traits, Achilles' heels, dim nightmares, vocal tics, bad noses, hot tears, all handed down and us stuck with them...
...equal-opportunity lampoonist, Stamaty, 46, joyfully skewers both ends of the political spectrum and all points in between. His best-known character, Bob Forehead, is an earnest, airheaded Congressman who resembles John F. Kennedy, spouts conservative shibboleths and has seldom had a thought that didn't come straight from his political handlers...
...miasma of death hangs over the village of Nyarubuye, overpowering the scent of the surrounding eucalyptus trees. Their leaves, rustling in the wind, are all that moves. In the cool of the parish church, a body lies between the rough wooden pews, its skull split from crown to forehead by a machete blade. Outside, a mother and child, caught from behind by screaming Hutu militia, lie face down in the flowers, locked in a pitiful final embrace. Farther away, in a low mission building, 400 more bodies are piled on one another, the rooms thick with the stench of rotting...
...what was in town. Then came the dreaded rap at McCarthy's door. The reporter, Robert Nelson, young and just out of school in Nebraska, had been by four or five times, had knocked until his knuckles hurt, but no one had answered. This time a face, a high forehead, came moonlike to the black copper screen...
...fighting around the casino, one of our guys stepped forward and got shot. I went to get him with our chief medic. Some snipers fired at us, and the doc was killed instantly. The man we went to help died during the night. His brains were running down his forehead, and we couldn't have saved him even if we had had an operating room...