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...Kate Tateman, 31, a poet and some-time academic, discovers she is pregnant with her first child at about the same time she learns that her mother, approaching 60, has been told she has inoperable lung cancer. This juxtaposition of a birth and a death foretold offers some fairly obvious ironies and occasions for pathos, almost all of which Jayne Anne Phillips avoids in her third novel, MotherKind (Knopf; 291 pages; $24). Instead of ruminating on the metaphysical significance of her premise and the story that springs from it, Phillips concentrates on the day-to-day details of ordinary existence...
...Kate's ailing mother Katherine comes to live in her Boston house; the baby, Alexander, is born after 36 hours of labor on a Christmas morning. "It's amazing," Katherine tells her daughter, "how nature slaps women with everything at once--you take care of a new baby 24 hours a day, just when you're most exhausted." For a fee, a local firm called MotherKind provides cooking and cleaning and moral support for the new mother's first few weeks. Then, "MotherKind was finished; Kate herself was MotherKind...
Jason R. McNeely '00 and Kate D. Earls '00 were the soloists. Roy Kosuge '99, a Crimson editor, arranged the piece...
...tells the story of Eugene Morris Jerome (David Parker '03) during a rather eventful week of his youth in 1937. Surrounded by his family, Eugene steps outside of the action to offer a running narrative commentary on his thoughts and opinions. An average Brooklyn family, Jack (David Huyssen '02), Kate (Dana Scardigli '00) and their two children, Stanley (Eric Chesin '02) and Eugene, struggle to confront the economic and logistical hardships associated with taking in three more people: Kate's widowed sister Blanche (Debbie Rin '01) and her two children, Broadway-bound Nora (Sandra Seru '01) and sickly Laurie (Shaylyl...
...funny, too. Much of Act One builds toward a nice, relaxing evening meal for Jack, who lost his job as a part-time party favor salesman. As Kate prepares supper, Blanche struggles with her asthma and tries not to be dependent upon the family which took her in, Laurie exploits her questionable medical condition to avoid helping, Nora dreams of her audition for the new musical extravaganza Abracadabra!, Stanley tries to conceal losing his own job that day and Eugene fantasizes about Nora and her recent "developments." The pressure explodes in an absurd yet well-orchestrated dinner scene over boiled...