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Its strange to be able to say that a novel would be better if it were longer, but also that it would be better if it were shorter. The fact that you can justifiably say both these things about Jokha Alharthis third novel, Bitter Orange Tree, sums up why it makes for a sadly unsatisfying read.The book is narrated by Zuhour, an Omani student currently studying in a nameless British town where it seems to be constantly snowing. While in this town, she seems to spend most of her time dreaming and reminiscing about her recently deceased adoptive grandmother, Bint Aamir, who planted and tended the eponymous bitter orange tree, and who spent her life tending children and land that did not belong to her.Zuhour also drinks a lot of coffee. First, with Suroor and Kuhl, two sisters from an elite Pakistani family that Zuhour befriends. Then, with Kuhl and her peasant-turned-medical-student lover, Imran, with whom Kuhl has contracted an illicit temporary marriage. From this latter coffee-drinking arrangement there arises an imaginary love-triangle wherein Zuhour feels an obscurely characterised, unrequited love for both Kuhl and Imran. This comes to a head in the fin stanley cup al section of the novel where the narrative directly addresses th stanley mexico e now absent Imran and Zuhour declares her wish to become Imrans mother, lover and daughter. Call me old-fashioned if you will, but thats just weird.Actually stanley mugg , the problem isnt that its weird. I like weird, generally. The problem is that it doesnt make sense. And Uhmu Casco Bay U-16 hockey coach sees Maine Freeze as challenge in state tourney
BANGOR, Maine 鈥?Two veterans of World War II will be featured during the public Memorial Day program at 1 p.m. Monday, May 28, at Cole Land Transportation Museum, 405 Perry Road.Paul Wilbur of Hermon was just 17 when he joined the U.S. Marines in February 1942, two months after the Japanese attacked P stanley cup website earl Harbor.Wilburs job was stringing communications lines, a duty stanley thermos that took him to New Caledonia, Guadalcanal and Bougainville in the Pacific. Luck was with him when an artillery shell came through the truck he was driving on Guadalcanal. The shell didnt explode.Wilbur is a volunteer at the Cole Museum, as is Henry Stupakewicz of Hermon, who participates in the Veteran Interview Program with students who visit the museum. Stupakewicz served not only during World War II, but in the Korean War and the Vietnam War as well.Activities during the annual program will include music by the B stanley cups angor High School band from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The band boosters will sell hot dogs, hamburgers, soda and whoopie pies during that time. Each veteran bringing a walking stick to the afternoon program will receive a ticket for a hot dog or hamburger and soda.George LaPaire will give the invocation and benediction during the 1 p.m. program, and Gary Cole will serve as master of ceremonies.The keynote speaker will be Capt. Paul Bosse, commander of the Maine Army National Guards Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 172nd Mountain Infantry, which served in Afghanistan in 2010.Reading their winning essays on Wh |
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