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...after she had gone the distance in a tough nine-inning 3-2 loss to Hofstra. But Great Dane freshman Leah McIntosh did her one better, throwing a shutout to improve to 11-5. The rookie struck out six and worked around six Crimson hits, stranding eight opposing runners. Madick allowed just three hits and three walks while piling up four strikeouts, but took the loss to move her record to 16-6.“Shelly pitched a great game,” said captain and second baseman Julia Kidder. “She did nothing wrong...
...while striking out five. Lotti, who captured the same honor in the Colonial Athletic Association, improved to 23-4 on the year with a nine-inning, five-hit, eight-walk, 11-strikeout performance, allowing only two unearned runs. Lotti held the Crimson scoreless through six innings despite putting a runner on base in every frame and eight total, including two hits and a walk by senior shortstop Lauren Brown and two intentional passes issued to freshman slugger Lauren Murphy. “We were frustrated we didn’t execute early in the game,” Allard said...
...stories like that that made Hosseini realize he had to write A Thousand Splendid Suns. Unlike The Kite Runner, it has no scenes set in America. This is a book about Afghans in Afghanistan, covering the past 30-plus years of Afghan history almost month by month. Mariam is the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy playboy, forced into a loveless marriage to the boorish shoemaker Rasheed. Childless, the couple adopts 14-year-old Laila, who was orphaned by a rocket attack. Rasheed proceeds to take Laila as a second wife. Confined to a single claustrophobic household, beaten and denied love...
...Thousand Splendid Suns probably won't be as commercially successful as Hosseini's first novel, but it is, to put it baldly, a better book. Where The Kite Runner told an appealing but somewhat programmatic tale of redemption, Suns is a dense, rich, pressure-packed guide to enduring the unendurable. (Though there's still plenty of action: "I have this almost pathological fear of boring the reader," Hosseini admits.) Where the characters in The Kite Runner ran heavily to unredeemable sinners and spotless saints, in Suns the characters are more complex and paradoxical--more human...
...read you can almost feel Hosseini's range as a writer expanding. The Kite Runner was pretty much exclusively about men; Suns is largely about women--in the interest of authenticity Hosseini actually tried on a burqa. ("Just to see what it felt like," he says. "Nobody was around. It steals your breath away. It's really hard to get used to.") In The Kite Runner we witnessed, from a distance, one of the Taliban's infamous executions by Kalashnikov in a soccer stadium. In Suns we experience a similar execution firsthand, from the point of view of the victim...