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 The Jasmine Trade - Denise Hamilton
Newest Review: ... of business. Marina was a parachute kid, and through her contacts, Eve asks to be introduced to another – one Tony Hsu. Tony ... more  ... is one of the most interesting characters in the story. He is a bright, outgoing 17 year old but at the same time a vulnerable teenager. Tony and his sister Lily are key to the plot development in several ways. Through them and the case of the dead girl, the social issue of parachute kids that Eve is investigating becomes a question of real young people and what will happen to them. When dinner with Tony and his friend is interrupted by a robbery of a wedding party elsewhere in a restaurant, Eve discovers that Tony...more |
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The Jasmine Trade - Denise Hamilton: Inside the world of the "parachute kids" (957 words)
by - written on 20/02/05 (Very useful, 140 readings)
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Marina Lu’s killing outside the shopping mall where she has been choosing bridesmaids’ dresses is, to start with, just another story for LA Times reporter Eve Diamond. She thinks about how to milk it to hold readers’ attention a little longer as she writes it up, the 17 year old girl shot while she was planning her wedding, but it at first it seems like just another case in Los Angeles, a city where there is more than one murder every hour. Eve’s job at a bureau in the San Gabriel Valley suburbs of the city also involves covering the school beat, and research on another possible feature takes her to meet a youth worker. Mark Furukawa tells her about kids from ... Read the complete review
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