This has nothing to do with business culture, government, or most
of the things I usually blog about–but it does have a lot to do with
ethics, with the idea of acceptance of difference and with gender
identity, angels, terminal illness, justice, conformity, and more.

I’ve just read a remarkable novel, What Happened to Lani Garver by Carol Plum-Ucci, published in 2002 by Harcourt. Written for older teens, it has a lot to say to anyone.
Told
from the point of view of a teenage girl living an isolated and
conventional life on an island off the New Jersey coast, the story
involves this girl’s friendship with the gender-bending new kid in
town, whom no one else likes, and how their brief friendship before his
murder? disappearance? changes everything for her.

Amazon stocks the mass-market edition of this book.
It may or may not be easy to track down the trade paper edition (ISBN
is 0-15-216813-3)–but either edition will be worth the effort.

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Business Ethics magazine’s e-mail edition reports that the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre is doing three plays on business ethics this year!

The trilogy features Garson Kanin’s 1946 comedy “Born Yesterday,” about an uncouth business tycoon going to Washington, D.C., to buy political favors; David Mamet’s comedy “Glengarry Glen Ross,” about a “shark tank that masquerades as a real estate sales office”; and “The Voysey Inheritance,” a 1905 drama that looks at a family’s lucrative business and the attempts by a member of the younger generation to reform the company’s dishonest practices.

I couldn’t find this on the magazine’s site, so far.

But is that cool, or what?

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