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...father: "In the 20 years I have fought to live," he says in his florid maleficence, "the thought of killing you and your son has been my dearest nurse." He kills the father, is mortally wounded himself and, on his deathbed, reveals his identity to his daughter Ling Moy (Wong) and elicits her vow that she will "cancel the debt" to the Fu family honor and murder the son, Ronald (Bramwell Fletcher)... who, dash it all, is madly infatuated with Ling Moy...
...McGann toys just as nimbly with the novelist's narrative. "Brad made it his story," acknowledges Gee. Even still, "the bones of my story keep breaking through." These can still be traced through the melodramatic subplot of Paul's devout, disapproving brother (Colin Moy) and his repressed wife (Miranda Otto). But they find a fuller expression in the expanded use of the secret study of the film's title. It's this room, tucked behind the poison shed in an old orchard, where Celia and Paul can retreat into the world of books. But it's also where the sins...
...believed she had "a personal obligation to write an honest history of Chinese America, to dispel the offensive stereotypes that had long permeated the U.S. news and entertainment media." She traces the lineage of such attitudes through 150 years of Chinese immigration. (America's first female Chinese arrival, Afong Moy, was brought to New York to serve as a living curio in a museum exhibition .) The stories of successive waves of Chinese newcomers who were witnesses and participants in America's most dynamic moments?the Gold Rush, construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, Reconstruction, the civil-rights movement?can't help...
Kelly's crew of Mafia godfathers, Irish thugs, federal agents and neighborhood boys reads like a police dossier. There is Butcher Boy, a psychotic neat-freak who lives on steroids, Twinkies and cocaine and who lost count of his kills at thirty men. There is Mary Moy, a pregnant FBI agent determined to uncover the construction conspiracy before a maternity leave takes her off the case of a lifetime. There is Vito Romero, a Mafia man devastated by the death of his wife and tortured by the desire to rehabilitate and control his pierced, punk and promiscuous teenage daughter...
...there are many others as well--too many to support the story. While Mary Moy's struggle could make a very interesting subplot, she isn't fleshed out enough to be anything but a distraction in the action. There is also Rosa, a former grocery store cashier who has enchanted Paddy for a decade, but must now decide whether she can live with the life he has chosen. The romance between Rosa and Paddy is a fascinating but short lived device that leaves the reader stranded. Kelly creates some unforgettable characters, but there are also characters he should have forgotten...