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...Embracing Family is the story of Shunsuke Miwa, a 45-year-old Tokyo academic whose marriage, household and sanity are buffeted by unwelcome winds, most of them from the U.S. Trouble beckons from the novel's opening lines: "Ever since Michiyo had become their maid, the Miwa household looked worse than ever. Shunsuke, the man of the house, was not pleased. The living room was a mess from the night before, and Michiyo, instead of straightening it up, was having tea in the kitchen with his wife, Tokiko, talking and laughing...
...fully capture China's wrenching social changes. In "Extra," Granny Lin finds she has been "honorably retired" from her state-owned garment factory?which means the plant has gone bankrupt and Lin won't be getting her pension. She's lucky enough to find a new job as a maid at one of the posh new private schools sprouting outside Beijing, but it's not long before Lin discovers she has no real place in this new world. In another story, "Immortality," the rise and fall of a professional Mao impersonator comes to symbolize China's astounding past century, from...
...dissolves in the end into a sticky mess of saccharine sweetness, involving a Cinderella-esque union between Firth and a pretty servant. This plotline is strangely reminiscent of the Firth storyline from “Love Actually,” when he falls in love with the attractive Portuguese maid. “Nanny McPhee” would have proved a more satisfying dish had Firth lived happily ever after with Thompson, rather than with a woman 15 years his junior. Unless charged to entertain a five-year-old, skip “Nanny McPhee” and check...
...feelings, as he hesitates with both speech and movement. The interactions between Fiennes and Richardson are the high point of the film, but occur too infrequently in the storyline. Their chemistry is undeniable and one wonders why they are not paired on-screen more often (“Maid in Manhattan” notwithstanding). The film juggles the troubled relationship between Todd and Sofia, offset by escalating tensions in a Shanghai soon to be invaded by the Japanese. Both Sofia and Todd have lost everything in their lives and, because of this, find comfort in one another. Romantic movie weaklings...
...Although India's current economic boom has been criticized for unevenly benefiting the rich, new wealth is percolating down in many parts of the country to newly empowered members of the working class such as Padma Kondababu, a 40-year-old maid in Madras. The first woman in her family to work outside the home, Kondababu makes $85 a month, a good salary by Indian standards. Whatever she can save, she says, she uses to buy gold, sometimes even in $12 installments?enough for tiny stud earrings. "It's a matter of pride for people like me to buy gold...