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...ability to make people put theirguns down, convince them that she's worthy oftheir trust," says Mark Z. Sourian '95, a closefriend of Brown's for the past two years. "Itcomes across in her acting or even just in herreadings of poetry--her honest, genuine spirit. Ithink that in our culture, it's harder for a womanto be as funny as a man, yet Winsome is one of thefew women I know who truly manages to carry itoff...
logic with which Sourian handles these expositions is the most striking aspect of the book: the discovery of love in its varieties by Miri, Josh and Lexy shows a calm yet intense emotional sensitivity in the author...
...reflections of Josh, who is a pretty colorless character despite his importance, are liable to make the reader impatient. And the retelling of certain incidents from different points of view, while sometimes highly effective, is also frequently exasperating. Here, in his fidelity to a pure understanding of his subjects, Sourian carries writing about what he knows to the brink of tedium...
Nevertheless, in his clarity of comprehension and expression and his ability to direct himself squarely to the kernel of his tale, Sourian shows his very considerable talent. "Miri" is a first novel which excites hopes of much finer things to come with the broadening of the author's experience...
...such a setting, Josh seems to pale to transparency, while Lexy glows with a passion that finally ignites Miri. At novel's end the cousins know that if they marry, it will be to each other. Only in this ending does Author Sourian, himself of Armenian descent, make an overt slip in his knowledgeable treatment of GreekAmerican customs, for consanguineous marriages up to the third cousin are regarded by the Orthodox Church as incest. At 24, Boston-born Peter Sourian is master of a style that is fresh, natural and ebullient. His characters define themselves in the language...