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...Sigrid Nunez's much praised first novel, A Feather on the Breath of God, the protagonist, a daughter of joyless immigrant parents, leaves her pained life in New York City to teach English in China. Never having experienced a sense of emotional belonging, she now chooses a life that will make her perpetual sense of alienation all the more urgent...
Save for occasional tedious digressions--four whole paragraphs on Nona's yoga breathing--Nunez limns Nona's search for self with some impressively elegant writing, which gives this book its true appeal. Of the love letters Nona receives, Nunez writes, "They were carried away not by love but by the vocabulary of love, the adjectives and verbs of love, one smooth golden word following another, like honey dripping from a spoon." For the most part, Nunez's prose flows just as fluidly...
...including a map of O.J. Simpson's estate. Marisa Campbell, a senior at New York City's Queens College, and Susanne Seinader, a recent graduate of Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto, have researched and collected photographs for the Pictures department. Hakim Fajardo from the University of Vermont and Victor Nunez from Wesleyan University have worked on special projects...
...CREW FROM IT HAPPENED LIKE THIS, A PROgram on the Telemundo Spanish- language network, was after a human-interest story. They got a horror show instead. In North Lauderdale, Florida, Emilio Nunez confronted his ex-wife Maritza at their daughter's gravesite, blaming her for the girl's suicide. As ! the camera rolled, Nunez pulled a pistol from his pocket and shot Maritza 12 times...
...example, blacks, who make up 10% of the population, hold 30% of the county jobs. Hispanics, who constitute 33% of the population, ! hold only 18% of the jobs. "Blacks think we want to take jobs away from them, so they're fighting us tooth and nail," says Raul Nunez, president of the Los Angeles County Chicano Employees Association. "They are doing the same thing to us that whites did to them...