family plot

"My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock" showcases dozens of clips from Hitchcock’s films, ranging from his early silent features “The Farmer’s Wife,” “The Pleasure Garden” and “The Ring,” to mid-century classics like “Vertigo,” “Psycho” and “North by Northwest,” to his late-period films “Marnie,” “Torn Curtain” and “Family Plot.”

“Everything changed after the hurricanes, and we need protection,” Cosmi, a 36-year-old father of two, said, adding that his uncle was killed after being ordered to abandon the family plot.

Insuk and Sungho marry; move to San Jose, Calif., with Sungho’s mother, Huran; have a child named Henry; and move to Tacoma, Wash. But this kaleidoscopic novel never stays within the borders of a tidy family plot.

Rice may be harvested by enormous combines on an industrial-scale farm or by hand on a small village family plot.

But there was at least some measure of closure for Ms. Kotliarova, 62, who laid her mother, Tamara Kotliarova, to rest in the family plot.