Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hovering over their quarrels about the outer world is domestic grief: the death of their 16-year-old son in Brazil, just before they were to return home, because he made the fatal error of wearing a shiny new watch to the beach. The parents realize that much of their high-minded shame about unknown babies malnourished by infant formula is really self-absorbed rage at the company for somehow causing the death of their son. This self-knowledge pervades the stunning finale. The husband has retreated to the Mexican inn where the couple spent their honeymoon. As he waits...
Inside a Tuzla sports hall being used to house the evacuees, Merima Sinanovic, a small 20-year-old woman, sits quietly. Her soft blue eyes are set in a face etched with pain and grief. After Serb nationalists sacked her hometown of Vlasenica early in the war, killing her parents, she and her three young brothers roamed the forests in search of food and shelter. "We learned to survive from the old people who had lived through the Second World War," she explains. "They told us how to cook tree buds into a kind of bread. They were surprised...
...play itself follows the tumultuous love-life of a hip New York choreographer, Anna. Her gay flatmate has died, leaving her to cope with grief and his rowdy, loudmouth older brother, Pale, Grief proves the easier to deal with. She loses her preppy boyfriend, he sense of identity, her other roommate's respect and her psychological well-being--all for a drunken, ignorant New Jersey (horror!) restauranteur. Love sure is funny...
...stirrings for his sister-in-law. Some of the dialogue clangs with touchy-feely phoniness ("How come you didn't cry when my father was killed?" an angry boy demands of his uncle). But the show scores with scenes of luminous originality and emotional truth: an improvised dance of grief by the widow; a jail-cell encounter between the cop and a man arrested for his brother's murder, in which hate runs smack into pity...
...sexuality, divorces, insanity and a suicide or two confront the motley cast of teachers, parents, students and lovers. Walker Miller, an angst-ridden teen, shoots himself in the mouth, triggering a season of self-analysis for everyone involved. The novel charts their attempts to recognize and deal with their grief...