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Exactly how the government got Fortier to agree to testify is not clear. But TIME has obtained a vivid account of how investigators persuaded McVeigh's sister Jennifer to provide the prosecution with two typewritten statements, even though she is fiercely loyal to her elder brother (she is 21, Timothy 27). Jennifer and her father William McVeigh agreed to the TIME interview under terms negotiated with Timothy McVeigh's lawyers that tightly restricted what could be asked. Thus Jennifer would not discuss what she had told the grand jury. But as to how FBI and other federal investigators had treated...
...Salt Dancers (Simon & Schuster; 235 pages; $22), a forcefully written novel of child abuse and parental desertion. The author's strength is her unfailing immediacy of language, which illuminated her fine previous novel Stones from the River. Her scenes, as character grates on troubled character, are real and vivid; they command attention. But the book's structure might have been designed by a committee to illustrate how bitter, unresolved childhood memories can be coped with. (Hegi's dedication is "For my women's group"; is there a clue here...
Mary Cantwell's second book, Manhattan, When I Was Young, invites readers into Cantwell's Manhattan life not as visitors, but to experience its fullness with all their senses. With intricate details this memoir recreates a vivid picture of New York that will draw poignant memories from any New Yorker and leave others hungering for its vitality...
There's much to like in Ursula Hegi's forcefully written novel (Simon & Schuster; 235 pages; $22) of child abuse and parental desertion. The author's strengths -- an unfailing immediacy of language and real, vivid scenes that command attention -- are all on display. But the book's structure, saysTIME's John Skow, "might have been designed by a committee to illustrate how bitter, unresolved childhood memories can be coped with." What we're left with is a plot straight out of a bad soap opera, and even a writer as gifted as Hegi can't dress it up as anything...
...years later, Susan got another vivid lesson in the priority of adult desires over children's needs. Her stepfather, a pillar of the community, started sexually molesting her. Susan reported the abuse, but she and her mother decided to drop the charges. Message to Susan from Mom: I'm willing to sacrifice you--your physical integrity, your self-esteem, if necessary even your life--in order to hold on to this...