Bondoux, Anne-Laure. Life as it comes.BONDOUX, Anne-Laure. Life as it comes. Tr. from the French by Y. Maudet. Random House, Delacorte. 211p. c2004. 978-0-385-90390-5. $15.99. S * This is a European story, with French sisters the main characters, coping together in a crisis. The narrator NARRATOR. A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37. Obsolete. is Mado, 15 years old, in the care of her older sister Patty, who is 20. Nearly nine months before this story begins, their parents died in a car crash. That in itself is a crisis. Now Mado learns that Patty is pregnant and it's too late in the pregnancy to get an abortion. Even though Patty is the oldest and the legal guardian, she and Mado both know that Mado is the sister who is decisive and pragmatic. After Mado's exams, they go to the family country house in August, generally cut off from the wider world. There, Patty's baby is born unexpectedly, with only Mado as midwife MIDWIFE, med. jur. A woman who practices midwifery; a woman who pursues the business of an account. 2. A midwife is required to perform the business she undertakes with proper skill, and if she be guilty of any mala praxis, (q.v. . They don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what to do. If they acknowledge the baby to the authorities, they are afraid Patty will lose guardianship and Mado will have to go into foster care. Enter Luigi, the baby's father, the spurned spurn v. spurned, spurn·ing, spurns v.tr. 1. To reject disdainfully or contemptuously; scorn. See Synonyms at refuse1. 2. To kick at or tread on disdainfully. v. boyfriend. Exit Patty, who runs away rather than face the consequences of parenthood. How all this evolves makes for a riveting riv·et·ing adj. Wholly absorbing or engrossing one's attention; fascinating: The last chapter was so riveting that I was reading past midnight. story of grief, sibling conflict, and acknowledgement of personal responsibility and change that is related by an expert storyteller, the author of the prize-winning The Killer's Tears. Claire Rosser, KLIATT S--Recommended for senior high school students. *--The asterisk (1) See Asterisk PBX. (2) In programming, the asterisk or "star" symbol (*) means multiplication. For example, 10 * 7 means 10 multiplied by 7. The * is also a key on computer keypads for entering expressions using multiplication. highlights exceptional books. |
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