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...Imagine a Las Vegas janitor and his schoolteacher wife facing rising housing prices and therefore considering refinancing their mortgage. They seek advice from a mortgage broker whose commission derives solely from the size of the loan he can underwrite. Naturally, the mortgage broker insists that he can get the couple into a $1 million home, despite their combined $75,000 income with an adjustable rate mortgage...
...were helping her club thrive, he pointed out, couldn't even afford to buy groceries. On New Year's Eve, he had run into one of them, on a high after finishing a set. "He said, 'It was fantastic. I killed 'em.' And then he said, 'Tom, can you loan me $5 for breakfast?' I told Mitzi that story, and she said, 'Well, he should get a goddam job.' I said, 'Mitzi, he has a job. He worked for you on New Year...
...impossible to separate the natural and human realms of the book. Everything is rooted in the soil, from Dhané's financial crisis that stems from the repossession of his livestock - floated as security for a bad loan - to the elemental metaphors of wood, fire and water that Chettri uses to define his characters. Strapped with debt, Dhané's "thoughts raced by like a powerful torrent"; Maina, his wife, bemoans the "log that fate had flung at them" after learning that Jhuma, the sister, has been raped. The swaggering soldier, who blinded Jhuma with his khakis, foreign words...
...were helping her club thrive, he pointed out, couldn't even afford to buy groceries. On New Year's Eve, he had run into one of them, on a high after finishing a set. "He said, 'It was fantastic. I killed 'em.' And then he said, 'Tom, can you loan me $5 for breakfast?' I told Mitzi that story, and she said, 'Well, he should get a goddam job.' I said, 'Mitzi, he has a job. He worked for you on New Year...
...groceries. On New Year's Eve he had run into one of them, on a high after finishing a set at the Westwood Comedy Store. "He said, it was fantastic, I killed 'em, had the best show I ever had. And then he said, 'Tom, can you loan me five dollars for breakfast?' I told Mitzi that story and she said, 'Well, he should get a goddamn job.' I said, 'Mitzi, he has a job. He worked for you on New Year...