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...more technically proficient Glassjaw or Rocket From the Crypt, while “Junkie Blooze” is a tongue-in-cheek blues that features a searing guitar solo by Carter—not unlike The Jeff Beck Group’s famed guitar jam, “Rice Pudding.” The band really shines, however, on “Stars As Clocks” and “Table For Two,” two songs that exhibit more of an all-encompassing band. The angular guitars of “Stars As Clocks?...
Well, I meet Condoleezza Rice sometimes. I see Colin Powell sometimes...
Unlike fellow former British colonies India and Pakistan, Malaysia has yet to produce a Vikram Seth or an Arundhati Roy. There has been no writer of international stature, or even a literary canon?in Bahasa or English?that one could call Malaysian. The Rice Mother, a delicious fictional cocktail packed with Malaysian flavors, may finally put the country on the global publishing map. Plainly, debut novelist Rani Manicka has studied other Asia-themed best sellers such as Wild Swans and The Joy Luck Club to produce a family saga centered on the tempestuous relationships between mothers and their children...
...myself, that she does not know how ugly a beast she clasps so close to her breast?" After the Japanese rape and murder one of the daughters, the family starts to drift apart. Lakshmi grows into a formidable matriarch, towering over her scattered, resentful clan, eventually becoming the rice mother of the title: "The Giver of Life ? In Bali her spirit lives in effigies made out of sheaves of rice ? She is the keeper of dreams. Look carefully and you will see, she sits on her wooden throne holding all our hopes and dreams in her strong hands...
...Rice Mother is at its most poignant when Lakshmi loses power over her brood. Her granddaughter Dimple marries Luke, a rich Japanese-Chinese businessman in Kuala Lumpur. Their romance starts off passionately, but Luke's eye wanders and their union turns into a frosty farce. Luke pays a waiter to sleep with his wife and Dimple complies, hoping the assignation will lead to divorce. To her horror she finds she has stepped into her husband's new kinky obsession. Luke and Dimple's twisted relationship provides startling scenes that save the novel from reading like it's been cooked...