{"id":3773,"date":"2024-07-25T15:24:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T15:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3773"},"modified":"2024-08-08T15:24:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T15:24:53","slug":"the-tokyo-suite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3773","title":{"rendered":"The Tokyo Suite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A deep investigation into the lives of two women: a mistress and her maid. Maju is one of scores of the \u201cwhite army,\u201d maids and nannies in S\u00e3o Paulo; she cares for young Cora, whose parents pay the child little attention. Fernanda, Cora\u2019s mother and a successful TV executive, is uniquely self-involved; even when Maju and Cora disappear one day, Fernanda can\u2019t stop obsessing over an affair she\u2019s having long enough to focus on her own daughter\u2019s abduction. Dad, meanwhile, has pretty much checked out. But once Fernanda does realize her daughter is gone, her whole world begins to cave in. Maju and Cora, meanwhile, have boarded a bus for a multi-day trip that Maju barely plans\u2014they have limited food and money\u2014and that begins to unravel after the first day. <strong>Each woman is confronted by a harrowing series of events that forces them to confront maternal guilt, poverty, and society\u2019s expectations.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deep investigation into the lives of two women: a mistress and her maid. Maju is one of scores of the \u201cwhite army,\u201d maids and nannies in S\u00e3o Paulo; she&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[208,180,57,101,52,50,51,53,122],"class_list":["post-3773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-brazil","tag-debut","tag-domestic","tag-family-life","tag-psychological","tag-suspense","tag-thrillers","tag-women","tag-world-literature"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Tokyo-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Tokyo-400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Brian Kenney","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}