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...Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees might have been written with the calculation of getting chosen for Oprah's Book Club. (It wasn't, though it did make Good Morning America's reading list.) The 2002 novel is a coming-of-age story about a white girl, Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning), who flees her abusive father and, in the company of her black nanny Rosaleen, finds refuge and surrogate motherhood with three Afro-angelic sisters who run a bee farm. Why did Kidd, a white woman, choose these heroines? "I grew up surrounded by black women," she told...
...Another source of tension appears to have been the Material Girl's growing distaste for Britain. "When Madonna first moved to the U.K., she loved the idea of becoming an English rose. But slowly it turned sour," the source said. "She doesn't have many friends here and as she turned 50 she has become very philosophical and started wondering what it's all about...
...Lowdown:As Chang notes, Dongguan is where the First Opium War sent China's Qing Empire on its headlong course towards eventual collapse - and is also where China's first foreign-owned factory opened in 1978. Factory Girls is one of the few books on modern China that deals more with the ramifications of the second milestone than the first, to Chang's great credit. For Dongguan's factory girls, the Cultural Revolution, The Great Leap Forward and the other injustices of the Mao era are stories from aged relatives and history books (As one girl asks another during...
...Friday night and you forgo the usual ritual of tequila shots, awkward dancing to the latest T.I. song, and waking up the next morning (aka 3 p.m.) with painful aches and even more painful recollections for a mellow night of takeout from the Kong and numerous episodes of Gossip Girl. After getting your feet toasty warm by the fireplace (aka the stack of Moo Shu chicken on the floor) and cheering for Team Serena, you hear a drunken rendition of “Living on a Prayer” that would make even William Hung cringe. Apparently, not everyone shares...
...little incentive to develop, or produce, pediatric medications because there are so few HIV positive children in the developed world," the author notes while recounting his visit to one of the few "care homes" that exist to take care of Indian children with HIV. Of an eight-year-old girl named Mani who lay dying there, a nurse explained, "Hospitals are the worst places for people living with HIV in this country. And Mani is a child after all. ... She likes people around her. She likes being touched...