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“The Eleventh Hour” sees the acclaimed Indian-born British American author exploring the weighty matters of life and death.

“The Gifting Bowl” includes a faceless, yellow figure holding a weighty book while a trio of colorful hands reach down from the painting’s ceiling to grasp into a transparent bowl.

By contrast, Ms. Lloyd brings a weighty, wary gravitas to Celeste, the group’s only black member, who often radiates a mild prickliness.

It also sets up a potential 2028 political showdown between two of California’s weightiest political figureheads.

But it’s Gaffin’s candid memories of the family and romantic struggles that dovetailed with her career that lend the tome a weightier, more personal touch.