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...aging affect family celebrations? In one family I saw, the grandfather always carved the turkey. One year the old man botched it badly, and the bird fell on the floor. Everyone was humiliated and wanted to cancel the next year's dinner. "Why can't we carve in the kitchen," a 12-year-old piped up, "and put the platter in front of Grandpa to serve?" This was a pivotal moment for the family. Families resist change, but they can and must learn to find new ways of being together, especially at holiday times. These gatherings are the heart...
...examining personal relationships, this time she takes on two of the more pressing moral issues of the age: how to do good in the world and whether it matters. Her previous novels - The Joy Luck Club (she also co-wrote director Wayne Wang's 1993 movie version), The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses and The Bonesetter's Daughter - were all best sellers focusing on the bond between mothers and daughters, the latter often Chinese-American like Tan. Uncharacteristically, Saving Fish is mostly about politics, and it's set mostly in Burma, not China or Tan's native...
...every game we need to come out with our best effort to get a win. We’re seeing the bottom teams catch up and we expect a full season of exciting games.”YALE 3, HARVARD 1The Crimson fired everything but the kitchen sink at Sarah Love on Friday night, but the all-conference netminder was up to the challenge, tallying an astounding 46 saves to propel Yale (2-4-2, 2-2-1) to a 3-1 win at Ingalls Rink. Coming off a weekend in which Harvard coach Katey Stone implored her skaters...
Just two weeks prior, the scene was hectic but warm at the King house. The children played video games. Jan and Yolanda Meehan-Hoo held hands in the kitchen and talked about how much the town had done for them. Forrest hovered nearby, chiming in occasionally, as Marie made dinner. "Forrest is like the dad of the whole family," said Jan, smiling. "Anytime I have gone to this man with a problem, he's solved it. Even things I didn't want solved...
...make the writing conversational. Chouinard tosses in everything from the second person to quips like, “When I die and go to hell, the devil is gong to make me the marketing director for a cola company” and “Get out of the kitchen if you can’t stand the heat.” This folksy tone is stiff and unconvincing. The book also occasionally reads too much like an advertisement for Patagonia. Admittedly, publicity is one of the intended side effects of devoting an entire volume to dissect one company...