It braves an opening exploration of Barry's childhood in the first-person present tense and generally succeeds in suggesting a narrator whose act of remembering, though couched in the language of an adult, is at the mercy of a child's earliest perceptions, with all the hallucinatory vividness and blind spots we expect of a child.
If women's books aren't reviewed, when women's books are declared "less literary, and when women's books on family are declared women's fiction, while men's domestic books are declared brave and eye-opening, it adds many pounds to the micro-inequality pile.
London, already home to the internationally acclaimed Open Data Institute, has taken further brave steps with the opening of the London Data Store, one of the most extensive publicly available data banks of any city in the world.
"They were brave," Cattelan said at the opening, sounding both nervous and relieved.
In the opening ceremony, a brave young woman interrupted the Republic of Congo's Minister of Culture to condemn poverty and homelessness in a potentially wealthy land: a pure Achebe moment.
In the opening scene these "brave conquerors," as the king calls them, sign a pledge to "war against" their own affections and "the huge army of the world's desires".
Co-star Keira Knightley and other members of the cast - including Charles Dance and Mark Strong - also braved the rain on the opening night of the festival.
The minutes state: "Ms Lees warned, therefore, that some serious thought and brave decisions would be required after the opening of the first world war galleries.
Note the way in which he dropped right-back Ernest Mabouka, who struggled in the opening game, while also being brave enough to change his strikers throughout the group stage as he sought the best format.
An impressive 40,000 attended the opening ceremony Monday, with thousands braving the rainy conditions to watch the first round of heats early Tuesday morning.
