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...Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees might have been written with the calculation of getting chosen for Oprah's Book Club. (It wasn't, though it did make Good Morning America's reading list.) The 2002 novel is a coming-of-age story about a white girl, Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning), who flees her abusive father and, in the company of her black nanny Rosaleen, finds refuge and surrogate motherhood with three Afro-angelic sisters who run a bee farm. Why did Kidd, a white woman, choose these heroines? "I grew up surrounded by black women," she told...
...knows how close the camera is, how closely viewers are monitoring her moods, so she never pushes an emotion; she's like a doctor with a sixth sense for detecting internal ailments. With no signs of exertion, Fanning wills Lily from fictional stereotype into persuasive movie existence. The Secret Life of Bees may not be a To Kill a Mockingbird on page or screen, but Fanning is the center of its soul and intelligence. It's Hollywood's job to find strong parts for this precocious genius as she matures into womanhood...
...like what is the real India and what is the nature of poverty." Another of the judges, who asked not to be named, confided that it was "a very tricky choice" between Adiga's book and the judges' second favorite of the six shortlisted novels, Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture. As this judge saw it, Barry's novel was a great display of beautiful writing, while Adiga's novel was a masterful example of "crackling story-telling" and was "one of the most incredible books I've ever read." In the end, he said, Adiga won by "the narrowest...
...almost seven million migrants, but few people believe these official figures...Dongguan is invisible to the outside world. Most of my friends in Beijing had passed through the city but all they remembered - with a shudder - were the endless factories and the prostitutes. I had stumbled on this secret world, one that I shared with six million, or eight million, or maybe ten million other people...
...what if soda can’t really prevent pregnancy? The U.S. needs to keep up with the burgeoning Third World anyway. And even though most respondents would rather that several (million?) of their best buddies be immersed in water, they clearly prefer Coca-Cola’s secret formula to nonoxynol-9. Sorry, big pharma; congrats, big sugar...