Birds Of Paradise centers around a nuclear family during the mid nineties property boom in Miami Florida. Brian the father is a lawyer for a high powered property real estate company and is a boring character other than the fact towards the end of the story he struggles with his moral reasoning...
I love to read. I love to cook. I love to eat good, well prepared food. I love to read about people who cook.But the author apparently isn't a person who cooks, at least not beyond helping grandma or auntie make the occasional pastry. She never does the cooking. It's done for her, or she's invite...
I try marrying a sweet boy from my writing class—I can’t see any other way of leaving my parents’ home. But I can’t be married with much success, it seems, because during my twenties so much of me still belongs to my parents. And also because I’d grown up in confinement and now there is no part o...