{"id":1401,"date":"2005-04-22T01:46:11","date_gmt":"2005-04-22T06:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1401"},"modified":"2005-04-25T21:11:44","modified_gmt":"2005-04-26T02:11:44","slug":"in_the_face_of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/22\/in_the_face_of\/","title":{"rendered":"‘In the Face of Jinn’ by Cheryl Howard Crew"},"content":{"rendered":"

Defamer, a Los Angeles gossip blog, publishes a\nreader’s report about\nan Indian-themed party at Brian Grazer’s house<\/a>. The celebration was\nin honor of a new book by Cheryl Howard Crew, the wife of Ron Howard:<\/p>\n\n

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The whole affair was abso-fucking-lutely gorgeous with an Indian theme (seems\nas if the book, which I didn’t take, is about an American girl who travels\nin India) and beautiful Indian dancers doing their thang all over the backyard.\nBut I did feel bad for the poor catering staff, who were all white girls subjected\nto the torture of wearing saris and showing off their not-quite-brown stomachs.\nThankfully the Grey Goose on tap allowed me to forget all my sympathy. [Defamer<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

<\/a> Crew’s novel, “In\nthe Face of Jinn<\/a>,” carries\nthe following\ndescription<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n

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Two American sisters, Christine and Elizabeth Shepherd, are on a silk-buying\ntrip in India for their business in California. After Elizabeth mysteriously\ndisappears, Christine is compelled to challenge the ineffectual U.S. and Indian\nbureaucracies and venture alone, with various strangers as guides, to find her\nsister. Disguised in the traditional female garb of some Islamic cultures, Christine\ncontinues her search in Afghanistan and Pakistan. She navigates the mysterious\ntribes of the Pashtuns, has a dangerous encounter with the Taliban, and learns\nto fear the “Jinn,” the devils that dominate the superstitions of\nthe people she must understand in order to survive. Inspired by her own extensive\ntravel throughout the region, Cheryl Howard Crew has written an unforgettable\nstory with a strong determined heroine who rises powerfully from the pages of\nthis novel. [St.\nMartin’s Press<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Don’t know anything about the book, but do have a sincere plea for Ron\nHoward: Please, please, please don’t let Fox cancel “Arrested Development.” That\nis all.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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