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in Vogue by Min Jin Lee, April 2008
Lee has been transplanted to Tokyo, where the average Japanese woman's 5'2", 110-pound frame has her facing the personal demon "Minus" that has followed her through the volatile years of weight loss. Beginning with a psychologically traumatic relationship at Yale, Lee suffered with severe bulimia until she began understanding that "my body did not deserve this ... and I did not deserve this." While Lee's deeply personal struggle with weight is insightful, readers might find it suspicious that Vogue finds the writer at her thinnest to pen the article about body acceptance.
Posted 9:35, 4 April 2008
This abstract was written by Ceda Xiong and edited by Brijit.
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The Year's Best Books: Our Critic's Picks
in Fresh Air by Maureen Corrigan, 19 December 2007
Corrigan explains her choice of 2007's best books, and how a common theme running through the year's literature has been the grassroots, back-to-basics narrative of the American working class, from Richard Russo's Bridge of Sighs to Min Jin Lee's Free Food for Millionaires. However, this idea also comes through in European novels, such as Roddy Doyle's Paula Spencer, the sequel to his popular domestic-abuse tale The Woman Who Walked Into Doors. In nonfiction, Corrigan chooses biographies of Ralph Ellison and Thomas Hardy, making for a well-rounded review of the year.
Posted 9:58, 20 December 2007
This abstract was written by Nick Slawicz and edited by Brijit.
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