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...local tourist bureau. In her latest work particularly, the haunting yet hopeful Father of the Four Passages (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 233 pages; $23), the author seems impervious to her state's natural splendor, focusing instead on the blighted emotional landscape of her characters. Chief among them is Sonia Kurisu, the youngest daughter of a Japanese-American family living in Hilo. After a fraught childhood, Sonia stumbles through addictions to drugs and the men who provide them and undergoes three abortions before giving birth to an autistic...
...Indeed Sonia is at first a disturbingly flawed mother. Drug addled and tormented by visions of her unborn children, she hits and ignores her son, alternately praying for his death or her own, before her love for him becomes the path to her redemption...
DIED. JITENDRA PRASADA, 62, seniorleader of India's main opposition Congress Party, who made headlines last year when he challenged Italian-born Sonia Gandhi for the party's leadership; in New Delhi. Prasada's challenge was unprecedented in a party known for fierce loyalty to the leadership. He had campaigned against what he called a self-serving coterie around Gandhi in the run-up to the election, but was defeated resoundingly...
...Sonia H. Kastner '03 was elected the vice president and Kara Shamy '03 was chosen as finance director...
...Sonia Sanchez, author of Shake Loose My Skin