Word: wife
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...violence intensifies, Ismael becomes willing to face death with Job-like submission: “let God’s will be done, whatever pleases God, whatever he feels like.” But Rosero does not glorify Ismael; his illicit desires never cease. Although his love for his wife is, ultimately, the rubric by which he lives, we glimpse redemption only in his small acts of imaginative tenderness, as when Ismael decides, in his wife’s absence, to bury the cat that was killed in an explosion, “so that you shall never see your...
...contrefaire le mort?” (“Is there not some danger in refusing death?”). Rosero’s novel offers us an answer: to refuse death is to invite madness in the form of Ismael’s cultish devotion to his missing wife. But it is also to maintain a kind of integrity, to supplant the inevitability of death with the logic of love, by marshalling “all the force and stubbornness of a light in the middle of the fog that men call hope...
...their respective circumstances. As Michael, relative newcomer Aaron is a strong yet vulnerable gentle giant—or, as Leigh Anne affectionately terms him, Ferdinand the Bull, the hero of his favorite children’s book. Bullock, too, wholeheartedly inhabits her role as pushy, driven, no-nonsense Southern wife cum interior decorator, complete with a perfect accent no doubt drawn from her Virginia roots. Kathy Bates also shines as Michael’s tutor, a fanatical devotee of her alma mater, Ole Miss. Once recruitment offers start pouring in, she takes it upon herself to warn Michael away from...
...parents seem relieved to hear it. Matt, a textbook editor, reports that he and his wife quit a book club because it caused too much stress on book-club nights, and stopped fussing about how the house looks, which brings nods all around the room: let go of perfectionism in all its tyranny. Margaret, a publishing executive, tells her own near-miss story of how she stepped back from the brink of insanity. On her son's fourth birthday, she says, "I'm like 'Oh, my God, he's eligible for Suzuki!' I literally got on the phone and called...
...This month, Hirjee is packing off a 30-year-old businessman from Hyderabad and his 27-year-old wife to Bangkok and Pattaya, Thailand. Hirjee has yet to break the news that one of his eight marriage counselors on staff will be their extra baggage for the six-day vacation. "The message will be subtle," Hirjee says. "They will be told that somebody from our team will accompany you to help with transfers and other things. "We dont want to rock the boat by telling them much in advance and being too explicit. It's a sensitive issue...