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...clan in question is particularly influential or glamorous--the Kennedys, Rothschilds, folks of that ilk--or when a family chronicler comes along who can tell tales so irresistibly engaging that the boundary between personal lore and public interest dissolves. That is what Nomi Eve accomplishes in The Family Orchard (Knopf; 316 pages; $25), a first novel in the form of an extended genealogy of the author's forebears, covering some 160 years...
...supposed to be history, why is it presented as a novel? That is, as far as it goes, a fair response. Short of a longstanding personal friendship with the author, readers of this book have no way of determining whether any of the people and events in The Family Orchard have any historical reality or, for that matter, any genuine connection to the real Nomi Eve. But she anticipates this question of authenticity and announces her answer at the beginning: "I believe that fiction is formed truth. I believe that history is a way of knowing all of this...
...opening sentence, Scott Krueger is referred to as "a first-year who drank himself to death." Let us be clear that if Scott Krueger had indeed drunk himself to death, MIT would not have taken responsibility for his death. The President of MIT would not have traveled to Orchard Park, N.Y., to apologize to Kreuger's parents. MIT would not have taken the extreme disciplinary action of rescinding the MIT degree from the fraternity member who had planned the events of the evening that took a brilliant young man's life...
...Orchard said he would like to see the ART, the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training and the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club collaborate in the new theater...
...This will be a very exciting space for Harvard Square," Orchard said. "It can absorb a lot of talent and energy from a variety of constituents from the undergraduate to the professional level...