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"My mother was twenty-four years old, descended from a line of impoverished women, educated to the tenth grade, abandoned by a husband, and plagued with fear. And the bar menu offers plenty of interesting tidbits.Vegetable fanciers can have a feast with the sides, nine of them altogether. Meyers is content to allow Johnson and his magnificent contemporaries to speak for themselves and let insight and persuasive interpretation stand as his contribution to this "Life."Meyers' account is informed by profound but unsentimental sympathy for his subject's physical and emotional situation. In 1970s Iran, Jews are not seen as Iranians, she writes, but as "imposters and spies, sent here by Israel to take over the country like they've taken over America, to get rich off the blood of God-fearing Muslims."It is a society of arranged marriages, where girls are spotted on the street by men and their mothers and invited for a visit if her family is deemed worthy. The name lives on with the Killer Dana Surf Shop, founded by local surfers Gary Wright and Chris Andrews, who have also created an apparel line.

A NovelChristopher RiceScribner: 290 pp., $26Blind Fall--Christopher RICE'S fourth novel, "Blind Fall," is something of a departure, even as it continues to explore the complex terrain of his earlier, bestselling work. "I haven't seen all the species of chipmunks nor all the bats," he says. A schematic tone permeates the whole, which the ensemble performs with dutiful competence.