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where she learns about spontaneous generosity

But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job

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A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew

[Carver] has done what many of the most gifted writers fail to do: He has invented a country of his own

Consider the Oyster where she learns about spontaneousM. F. K. Fisher, whom John Updike has called our "poet of the appetites," here pays tribute to that most delicate and enigmatic of foods the oyster. As she tells of oysters found in stews, in soups, roasted, baked, fried, prepared la Rockefeller or au naturel and of the pearls sometimes found therein Fisher describes her mother's joy at encountering oyster loaf in a girls' dorm in he 1890's, recalls her own initiation into the "strange cold