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There was much cluck-clucking among movie critics about the dual appearance of Firestorm and Hard Rain , since both were about murderous crimes occurring in the course of natural disasters and both featured kick-ass heroines eager to risk their lives for imperiled stained-glass windows or the abandoned hatchlings of a Steller's Jay.
Her fictional heroines can name every indignity they've been subjected to since birth, and because they are usually bright young women from troubled families in poor island backwaters such as Antigua or Dominica, their list of injuries is long.
Her heroines have been fierce and admirable, but their struggle to be acknowledged has necessarily entailed a degree of self-dramatization--even, you might say, of selfishness.
(Interestingly, the Tamils who have renamed practically every public landmark, road, and bylane after their national and regional heroes and heroines prefer to retain “Poes Garden,” the name of the locality to which the Chief Minister's official residence belongs.)
But the heroines are actually insecure, weak, and define themselves in terms of men.