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...shouldn't. The best of the four tales in this collection, "Hawaiian Getaway," features Hillary Chan, a twenty-something child of Asian immigrants who loses her job and starts a downward spiral of guilt and self-loathing. Driven to distraction by a demanding, critical mother and a patronizing, "successful" younger sister, she begins making increasingly nasty prank calls to the payphone outside her window. Strangely, one of these results in a date with a decent guy. Will she see him again? It ends as she waits to find...
...like either, which is another thing that some readers may have a problem with. All four stories in "Summer Blonde" focus on rather negative people's inability to relate to others. "Alter Ego" tells of a young writer who begins neglecting his girlfriend for the sake of an even younger fan. In the titular tale, a lonely nerd fixates on a card shop girl who cheats on her boyfriend. Lastly, "Bomb Scare" gets right to the heart of being socially irrelevent in high-school. Each story reveals the secret life of the sad and alienated. If anything, the book...
Since The Catcher in the Rye (or perhaps Beowulf), high school kids have loved to rail against phonies. Rappers and rockers know this and sell themselves to teens by talking about how "real" they are. But recent teen-pop acts like Britney Spears made their fortunes off even younger audiences who craved fantasy figures. Authenticity be damned--stylists picked their sex-bomb outfits, choreographers gave them graceful routines, songwriters wrote their PG-13 come-ons. So it wasn't surprising that last year, when the fans of teen pop hit Holden Caulfield's age, its sales dropped about...
...December 1999, he seemed like the kind of American who would try to bulldoze through Japan's porcelain corporate culture--and slink home in frustration. A native New Yorker with a Harvard M.B.A., he appeared slick, headstrong and inexperienced. At 38 he was Mazda's youngest president ever--younger, in fact, than the average employee. He wore sharp suits (and still does). He had a habit of speaking in marketing lingo (which he no longer does). And like most foreigners in Japan, he committed the occasional faux pas. At one of his first dinners out with executives, he poured...
...political gimmick," says oppositionist Lim Kit Siang. (Though Mahathir had multiple-bypass surgery a decade ago, his health is robust for a 76-year-old.) But neither, it seems, does he wish to go because he feels he has accomplished enough and that it's time for younger leaders to take over?as Lee Kuan Yew believed. Mahathir modernized the economy, enabled Malaysia to gain international respect, and gave Asia a voice in the global arena. But after decades of championing the indigenous Malay cause at home, Mahathir has become disillusioned. The Malays, he said during the UMNO assembly...