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Things begin tensely and go downhill from there. Miriam gets a call from Houston saying that her mother has had a heart attack and may be dying. Ronnee refuses to be deposited back in Brooklyn, her financial mission unaccomplished, to face her I-told-you-so father. "You don't want to introduce me to all your friends and your family," Ronnee accuses Miriam and then mockingly imagines the Houston reaction: "Who's this strange girl? Where did all this blackness come from...
Another, although comparatively muted explosion gets the plot moving in Brown's fifth novel, Half a Heart (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 402 pages; $24). The year is 1986, and Miriam Vener, Jewish and in her mid-40s, lives in Houston with her ophthalmologist husband Barry and their three children. Amid the splendors of her gated community and rambling, expensive house, Miriam sports a troubled conscience, for she has another child, a half-black daughter whom she has not seen in nearly 18 years. Her husband knows about this chapter of her life, closed before he met her: the time during...
...Miriam guiltily brings Ronnee back with her to Houston, much to the surprise of her husband, who meets them at the airport. Her mother's condition has improved, but Ronnee's presence poses a critical question for Miriam: how to introduce a daughter, and one of mixed race besides, of whom none of her friends have ever heard...
...flat-screen Bloomberg News display. The 61-room hotel's only exterior signature is its gold nameplate: xv beacon. By contrast, the Soniat House in New Orleans is draped in its history: it was created from adjoining Creole town houses that date back to the early 19th century. Houston's Colombe d'Or began in 1923 as the Prairie-style mansion of Humble Oil founder W.W. Fondren. Like Soniat House, it exudes Old World elegance--and offers Internet access...
...That is an unusual but no longer unheard-of deal. There are reports of some fast-food restaurants also extending benefits to workers, including part-timers, who did not get them before. And wage hikes are cropping up in other places. Tony Vallone, owner of six upscale restaurants in Houston, was paying only minimum wage to his dishwashers and kitchen-prep workers 18 months ago. Now the dishwashers get an extra $2 an hour and the prep people $3 extra--and they all share in a 401(k) investment plan that was formerly limited to higher-paid workers...