Word: sisterly
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...laws, at least according to stereotype, are seldom easy to deal with. But just imagine being 26, newly married, returned from a honeymoon and suddenly living under the same roof as your hubby's extended family - eight, all told, including a peppy sister-in-law who, you soon discover, might be sleeping with her slobbering, mentally impaired teenage brother. Do you run or hide? If you're Noriko Shito (née Hashimoto), the birdbrained protagonist of Asa Nonami's trippy murder mystery Now You're One of Us, you do neither. You shut your mouth, smile and stay...
...grips with menopause, is trying, rather frantically, to salvage what's left of her rather disappointing life by becoming an actress. The spinster seamstress who lives next door is flirting with a client, but her desire is deterred by her need to care for her aged and dotty sister. You could perhaps characterize this as a Shop of Fools. You might also think of Caramel as another version of one of those agreeable, insignificant little comedies like Barbershop in which a group of amiable people yak and yuk their way toward provisional solutions to their petty, all-too-human problems...
Once upon a time there lived a poor peasant farmer and his homely wife, infant son and pretty younger sister. They hoed and sowed all day, every day, to feed their bellies, save money for the sister's dowry and earn enough for new clothes once a year. But implacable Fate played tricks on them. Usurious moneylenders fleeced the farmer of his land and house. A jive-talking soldier ravished the virginal sister. Destitute and socially shunned, the family fled their home village...
...loan - to the elemental metaphors of wood, fire and water that Chettri uses to define his characters. Strapped with debt, Dhané's "thoughts raced by like a powerful torrent"; Maina, his wife, bemoans the "log that fate had flung at them" after learning that Jhuma, the sister, has been raped. The swaggering soldier, who blinded Jhuma with his khakis, foreign words and hollow marriage proposal before committing the outrage, is a "blazing flame...
...photograph shown to jurors, Princess Diana sits between her two sisters in the backseat of a car, the three of them doubled over in laughter. Perhaps you can't remember the joke, the attorney suggests to the witness, Diana's eldest sister, the Lady Sarah McCorquodale. Aloof and understated throughout the day's proceedings, she breaks into a naughty grin: "I'm afraid...