Word: mara
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think we all agree," says Mara Friedman, "that a groundhog at a podium is funny...
...Victoria P. de Menil Nathan D. Dean Simon J. DeDeo Adeyemi K. Delbridge Rashid A.H. Delgado Matthew F. Delmont Roanak V. Desai D. Lawson DeVries Stefanie E. De Santis Joseph P. Di Pasquale Jennifer L. Diebel Ravi K. Dixit Chris-Tia E. Donaldson Elizabeth K. Dotson-Wesphalen Mara J. Dowdall Jesse S. Downs Chloe L. Drew Miriam E. Droller Alexandra B. duPont Brent W. Dusing Katherine D. Earls Hetty B. Eisenberg Fareed A. El-Amin Courtney E. Ellis Stephanie L. Ellis Lillian J. Epstein Sam Erman Valeria N. Escobari Kevin C. Etten Quincy R. Evans M. Jake Ewart Ewurama...
...novel dissolves rapidly after Sashie gives birth to her daughter, Mara, and it continues to unravel with the later insertion of Mara's niece, Naomi, as the final narrator. The work changes from a mythical tract to a soap opera of human fallibility. In the last section of the novel, one gets the impression that Budnitz wants to explore every facet of the human experience: mother and daughter, east and west, moral dilemmas and cheap symbolism...
...Mara is compulsive, jealous, hyper-analytical and destructive. She "walks as if the floor is thin ice. She checks beneath the cushion of a chair before sitting; she counts the knives in the silverware drawer." Through Mara, Budnitz explicates mental illness and the rationality of murder. This is too ambitious for her plot and narrative, especially given Mara's stream-of-consciousness rants. Had the rest of the novel not been so richly descriptive, this technique might have been effective. Instead, each thought staggers, laden with a false sense of importance and significance...
...strict environmentalists, ecotourism may be "a widely abused term which doesn't mean much anymore," in the words of Richard Leakey, director of Kenya's Wildlife Service. Certainly, having Masai Mara guides using two-way radios to speed the search for lions hardly seems in the spirit of noninvasive touring. But for all that, most critics concede that ecotourism is less invasive than forestry, mining and other forms of development. As Luis Roman, a Peruvian anthropologist working with the Matsiguenkas, observes, "To be successful with a venture like this, you need planning to make sure you don't overload...