{"id":1775,"date":"2017-09-15T08:42:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T12:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2017-09-15T08:42:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T12:42:24","slug":"new-york-mysteries-sept-9-sept-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nymysteries.com\/?p=1775","title":{"rendered":"New York Mysteries Sept. 9\u2014 Sept. 15"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Judson Memorial Church sponsored an evening with Valeria Luiselli and Nate Weida. The evening began with Weida\u2019s thigh slapping banjo music, followed by Luiselli\u2019s talk. She was accompanied by Juan Carlos Ruiz. Luiselli read from Tell Me How it Ends<\/em>, discussed the plight of many refugees and then had a Q & A.
\nWhy did you come here? is a theme that runs through Tell Me How it Ends<\/em>. The 119 page essay discusses children\u2019s immigration journey to the U. S. The prize is permanent citizenship. The opposite is deportation. Luiselli demonstrates how words stigmatize. Which do you prefer being labelled: illegal immigrant or undocumented refugee? Listening to this articulate woman under the cloud of DACA being ended gave the evening an added urgency.<\/p>\n

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Since Netflix will not carry Agatha Christie\u2019s Poirot<\/strong>, the English series after Sept. 30, I\u2019ve been binge watching. It\u2019s been a parade of the U. K.\u2019s finest actors: Ronald Pickup, Eileen Atkins, Anna Massey, Geoffrey Palmer. The list is endless. I think Agatha Christie\u2019s mysteries are intricate puzzles. Her plotting, as all writers know, is superb. When she drifts into thriller territory she\u2019s less successful. But what a body of work: Halloween Story, Murder on the Orient Express, The Clocks<\/em>. David Suchet fits into the eccentric Poirot part perfectly.<\/p>\n

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Graphic Lessons: Recent thirty-five-year-old widow Millie Fitzgerald applies for a private school teaching job, faints on a stabbed and dying man in the school kitchen, deals with the only witness to the stabbing – a troubled nine-year-old, develops a crush on a NYPD detective and her dog dies.<\/p>\n

Graphic Lessons: Nine-year-old Dana is the only witness who overhears three people fighting with George Lopez, the soon to be stabbed Windsor School kitchen worker. Who can she tell? Her mother who never listens or accuses her of lying? Her father who\u2019s started a new family in Singapore? She tells Millie.<\/p>\n

Graphic Lessons: Something\u2019s eating at NYPD Detective Steve Kulchek: a failed marriage? surviving a car bomb? his girlfriend marrying his corrupt boss? screwing up an important case? It doesn\u2019t matter because he\u2019s relentless.<\/p>\n

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