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...works much better as a smartly depicted character study of the post-graduate, middle-class, suburban types that spend several years in the city before getting married and moving out. The six hundred pages give Robinson room to flash back on important events like Sherman's struggle with his mom's cancer and Ed's tale of retribution against an abusive uncle. Every fifty pages or so he makes the characters answer a get-to-know-you question like, "What is your secret talent...
...endless manipulation of the Material Mom grows tiresome. The black T-shirt that says MOTHER on one said and F*CKER on the other; the pumped up arms; the riding the bull in the cowboy hat; the kimonos. It all seems like the endless repackaging of a product I don't particularly want to buy anyway...
...power of multigenerational housing has become a draw for Americans as they rediscover the virtues of the extended family. Developers like Del Webb are creating communities across the country designed for Mom, Dad, the kids--and Grandma and Grandpa. Hope has taken this natural, practical template a step farther. Qualified adults who commit to adopting up to four kids are offered free rent, a $19,000 salary for one parent to stay home and a vast network of support. Low-to-middle-income seniors receive reduced rent in exchange for volunteering a minimum of six hours a week. The result...
Most striking, though, are the relationships that emerge. Hope single mom Jeanette Laws and her family took to senior Irene Bohn, 77, a former nun and schoolteacher, after Bohn began to tutor Laws' son Brandon, now 12. When Brandon first arrived at Hope at age six, he "couldn't hold a pencil, didn't know colors," recalls Laws, who suspects he had been involved in a cult. But Bohn persisted, encouraging him. In the fall Brandon--until now in special ed--will start school in a regular class for the first time. On those rare nights Bohn doesn't come...
...sapphire mine is shut and in the hands of the Lao government, Jeppesen and Bruns remain in hiding and investors hold stock in a company that has no access to its only asset. The Danes' three children, living in Brisbane with their grandparents, can't understand why their mom and dad are in prison. Also bewildered are the locals who used to work in the mines. "There are still many sapphires there," says one worker as he walks in the rain not far from the mine's gouged earth. "I don't understand at all." Neither do the Danes...