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...life, in part because she was raised an evangelical Christian, which has given her a kind of spiritual-sexual hangover she's still trying to get over. She has a lot of catching up to do. Oh, and she's a newspaper columnist--not the most original plot device, but, hey, sometimes the formula works. The Big Love is a perfect sugary confection, with a surprising center of wistful wisdom...
After falling in love with a plot of very rocky soil, Cristophe Baron moved from the Champagne region of France to Walla Walla, Wash. (home of the sweet onion), in 1993. Today, as the state's only biodynamic (uberorganic) winemaker, he is producing plump, cultworthy Syrah, the noble grape of the northern Rhone, under his label, Cayuse...
...School are proud of their tradition, which has the advantage of being a secret code. And Maria of the mobile says it still has practical uses. "Say I'm at my grandmother's house and she wants my grandad to bring her some parsley when he returns from their plot 200 m away. I can stand at the door and tell him." Fuio! They can't do that in Seoul, Seattle or Sydney...
...author says that one of his models for Transmission was the fiction of English satirist Evelyn Waugh. When he exposes the inner workings of a Korean online role-playing club, hilariously parodies a Bollywood plot or offers a careful study of how tomatoes are stacked in a California supermarket, Kunzru shows he can do everything a gifted satirist is meant to do. Except perhaps for the most important thing. Waugh's critiques of the modern world's shallowness are set off against a sense of a Christian past that has been lost, a past that can be regained...
...plot is tangential; the point is that I believe him. After experiencing countless coincidences of common acquaintances and endless exclamations of “Oh, wow! You know her, too?” I am a believer that, well, it’s a small world after all. And I have my proof...