Apartment Choice

ORANGE COUNTY C.P.I. Church Street Inc. to Church Street Station of Orlando Inc., Sec. 26-22-29, $6.6 million. C.S.D. Sawgrass Inc. to Bottling Group LLC , Sec. 27-23-29, $5.67 million. Southern Gate Way Corp. to Omega Land Development Corp ., Sec. 28-23-30, $2.64 million. NationsBank to Southern Gateway Corp ., Semoran Commercenter, $2.6 million. Park Central Properties Ltd. to Third Series Investors Ltd., Park Central, $2.17 million. Eastmar Commons Partnership to T.W.C. Ninety-Nine Ltd., Eastmar Commons , $1.98 million. Anders B. Eklov to P.T.S.-Orlando LLC, International Drive Value Cen, $1.76 million. Long Lakes Hills Ltd. to Colony Construction Co., Long Lake Hills , $1.43 million. Gerard McHale to James W. and Kenlyn J. Dollar, Sec 15-22-30, $1.07 million. Gary and Deborah Kinnett to David S. and Karen E. Bradley, Cypress Springs, $945,000. Pierre J. Seacord to Daniel S. and Kimberly Gray, Anderson Heights, $934,000. Christopher J. and Courtney Campbell to Dennis and Marceli...

At the heart of the novel is a less sensational yet still unconventional story: that of two girls learning to make their way in the world, told with all the complication and unruliness of life, and also with an unspoken argument about what it means to tell a story like this. As children we experience the raw brute force of our feelings, but in the formative adolescent years , Messud told me, we learn how to be a person — ‘‘what it is to be a daughter, what it is to be a friend, what home means, what love means.’’ We learn these things by observing other people, but also from the stories that we hear: the books we read, the films we watch, the myths our culture teaches us. Yet the narratives for girls tend to be ‘‘dire,’’ she said, with violence at the forefront. With ‘‘The Burning Girl,’’ she hoped to write what she calls ‘‘a children’s book for grown-ups,’’ a book that acknowledges the inarticulable, even irrational power of emotion — an ‘‘animal thing’’ beyond understanding. It trea...