The Canadian dance duo (let's say it together now: mas-tercraft) evokes revered robot-rockers Daft Punk - only more punk and not quite as daft. It's hard to tell what audience the book could possibly be intended for: It's too sexed up for young adults, too juvenile for actual adults and too Encyclopedia Brown for anyone in between. The action is undeniably juicy - from steamy make-out sessions with campus hotties to cloak-and-dagger initiations - and the book is a quick read. 'Rose & Grave: Accept or reject.' Here it was. " 'Amy Maureen Haskel?' 'Yes,' I said in a rather breathless voice. The Washington-based writer makes her fiction debut with a novel set in the world of Ivy League secret societies. Oldest sibling Margaret reflects on her maternal experienceĮliza, the youngest of the literary Minot clan, has an uncanny gift for rendering the emotional fecundity of domestic life in all of its messy glory.ĭespite its Chekhovian premise, this is, at heart, a novel with an almost pathological need to deliver a happy ending for each character. "What was the proprietary thing about motherhood that made her feel like her children were not just hers, but were actually HER, part of HER?" Three siblings on divergent life paths are brought together by their father's terminal illness and a lifealtering family secret. Graphic Media Mix A Quick Take on New Releases for Sunday, July 16, 2006
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