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Cynthia Ozick, the American-born doyenne of contemporary observant Jewish writers, used to make her heroes and heroines refugees from the Nazis, struggling to fortify their shredded piety against the American profanity.
There's the messed-up sexuality of Antigua, the way girls are taught to be virgins while boys are encouraged to be careless and promiscuous; Kincaid's heroines have suffered from this sick training, and here we watch it slowly kill her brother.
The heroines of Career Girls crack jokes about the people turning up from their past as if on cue: What are the chances of that?
As she tries to decipher the convoluted course of her Central American adventure, Elena McMahon, "not one of those who saw in a flash how every moment could connect," discovers memory and imagination--faculties that Didion's previous heroines did their best to deny.
(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.)