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...pedigree, like her father's before her and her children's after, was politics. The oldest child of Josephine Hannon and John Fitzgerald, she was born on July 22, 1890. Her father, Honey Fitz, who eventually became mayor of Boston in 1906, was the quintessential ward politician: he joined every club, attended every wedding, wept at every wake and kept Rose, his favorite child, close by his side. Though Rose had wanted to attend Wellesley, her parents dispatched her and her sister Agnes to a convent in the Netherlands. In the beginning, she was desperately lonely, but eventually...
...Maggie can do for her children is love them-from a distance. Assuming that Jorge is another of Maggie's brutal mates, the welfare state abducts their first child from their home and their second child straight from the maternity ward. By now Maggie is afraid to let her babies out of her sight, or even out of her body. "No!" she screams as she goes through labor. "It's stayin' where...
...setting is a fictional county in northern Florida, circa 1969; the narrator is Jack James, who has recently got himself kicked out of the state university, and now drives a delivery truck for the newspaper his father owns and edits, the Moat County Tribune. Jacks elder brother Ward has become a star reporter at the (also fictional) Miami Times as one-half of an investigative team; he and his partner, Yardley Acheman, have won statewide renown with stories on a plane crash and a fraternity-hazing death. These two fetch up in Moat County looking into the 1965 murder...
Unfortunately for Jack, it is the slick Yardley Acheman who winds up consoling lonely Charlotte. But Jack has found other reasons to dislike Yardley. He has noticed that Ward does all the hard digging for facts: He wanted to have it exactly right. Yardley hangs around waiting to put his stylish spin on what Ward uncovers. "We get into too much detail," Jack hears Yardley complain at one point. "It ruins the narrative flow." Yardley comes up with a crucial and convenient piece of the puzzle...
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