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MIZRAHI Sales Manager. "I see him running the Martha Stewart department in K Mart...
Considering the wealth of employment opportunities available on and off campus to students and the number of students who decide not to work for Dining Services (HDS) when they find out about these opportunities, it seems curious that the mailing to entering first-years specifically lists HDS. Martha H. Homer, director of student employment, stresses that the card does not claim that positions at HDS and Dorm Crew are the only jobs immediately available to arriving students...
Jane is obsessed and grieving, not over a recent divorce, but about the loss of Martha, her best friend and distant cousin. Martha is not dead, she just disappeared somewhere along the line. Martha was not Jane's friend but rather her idol, the object of her admiration. Jane's chaotic and slightly overbearing mother sends docile Jane into the Galapagos Islands in hopes her daughter will get over the emptiness, where her tour guide is, not surprisingly--Martha! This is not the ending. It is only the beginning of this book that struggles to evolve...
While on the cruise with hundreds of underdeveloped characters, Jane remains pensive about the significance of her lost friendship with Martha. Soul-searching Jane wonders if the disappearance of indifferent Martha is connected with the hushed Barlow family feud. Darwinian theory, the pacific waters and blue-footed boobies are used to speculate answers...
...there are moments when Schine shines. She gives an occasional revelation about self-knowledge and a meaningful insight about the ways woman bond--but these are scarce. Jane believes that Martha gives "a sort of glorious uniform of the soul, new and intricate and ever changing, which [she] could put on each morning without thinking or choosing, which [she] could wear all day and even at night and revel in the pleasure of the fabric against [her] skin, the swirl of the skirts, the elegant shape." These rare and vivid images are beautiful and show Schine's strength...