![]() ![]() But the story doesn't take Mary anywhere, and that's the rub: after he's labored for the month that Frances is away absorbing the life of migrant workers to transform the front yard into the sylvan bower she once admired, she has one look and bursts into tears. Moreover Papa is secretary of Baker's Union Local 27, which takes the family on a picnic that's another yeasty slice of life. ![]() For the first time, too, the date of the story, 1939 onwards, is stipulated, and carries the weight of world events: in an inspired sequence Mary meticulously plots Hitler's kidnapping to please his chief critic, college sister Frances, who'd have him do something useful for mankind (the only hitch-"nobody drives") and increasingly Papa worries about Cousin Lebel, caught in France. Sachs seems to be extending her series inward rather than onward: if the addition of Mary, master tinker, family failure, is indicative, then the table-turning on Peter and Veronica was no isolated tour de force-in the eyes of Mary's admiring family, and in his admiration of Marv, Peter takes on still a different aspect. There are interesting developments in the Bronx bailiwick of Laura and Amy, Peter and Veronica. ![]()
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