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...giving a teacher’s salary for a month.” Despite the name, the Circle of Women is open to the other sex as well. Nearing the end of their 30-day project, the group is launching a new campaign in time for Mother??s Day, which invites men to donate money in their mother??s name. Using these creative fundraising techniques, the Circle of Women has found a lot of fans. “The thing that attracted me was that the girls took so much initiative in coming up with...
...from his brother, who barely acknowledges his presence; isolated from his mother, who is busy with a rocky relationship and another pregnancy; isolated from his classmates, who think of him as the “brother of the retard;” isolated from other adults who criticize his mother??s parenting. In an effort to find himself, Ares experiments with rebellion and turns to a new friendship with Kevin, a boy just released from a juvenile rehabilitation center. Ultimately, Kevin ends up dead and Ares takes the blame for a murder he did not commit...
...moment of joy passed quickly. Choi had been held against his will by a man who had convinced him to travel with him to see Choi’s mother. Instead, Choi was held for a ransom of $50,000. It was only after the customers at his exiled mother??s restaurant in South Korea raised $30,000 that the man released Choi, allowing him to travel to South Korea to be with his mother. Choi, who is now a high school student in Los Angeles, shared stories from the 14 years he lived in North Korea...
Edward Docx’s third novel, “Pravda,” starts off like a Dan Brown thriller. We are introduced to Gabriel Glover, freshly landed in St. Petersburg following his mother??s strange midnight call to his apartment in London. “Come tomorrow. Promise me,” she had demanded with mysterious urgency the night before. Gabriel obeys, traveling to Russia and taxiing over to her apartment only to find his mother dead on the floor. All similarities to Dan Brown, thankfully, stop there. Instead of the murder mystery suggested...
...narrative begins with the fictional mother??whose waist-to-hip ratio is already Barbie-esque—bringing her daughter to the office of “Dr. Michael,” an overly muscular male with a medical degree. Here, the mother explains to her daughter: “As I got older my body stretched and I couldn’t fit into my clothes any more. Dr. Michael is going to help fix that and make me feel better.” When the girl asks if the operations will hurt, the mother answers...