KIRKUS REVIEW

Mariam and Yosef are miserable, and for several reasons, not least the fact that husband and wife do not really know each other. Torn from their homeland by civil war, they have been plopped down on the flats of Illinois, settled in the white-bread city of Peoria and left to fend for themselves. Yosef, though, has ambition, and in time he puts himself behind the wheel of a weathered Monte Carlo—“a shabbier shade of red than the one she imagined”—and points its nose toward a destination, Nashville, since he loves nothing more than country music. It is not the honeymoon that Mariam, separated from Yosef for years, has dreamed of, and indeed, though the distance from Peoria to Nashville is less than 500 miles, it turns into
687 S.E.2d 484 (2009)
In re William I. BELK.
No. 464A09.
Supreme Court of North Carolina.
November 19, 2009.
Kevin P. Byrnes, Charlotte, for William I. Belk.
The following order has been entered on the motion filed on the 18th of November 2009 by Respondent-Appellee for Extension of Time to File Brief:
"Motion Allowed. Appellant shall have up to and including the 16th day of December, 2009 with Appellee's brief to be due 15 days after Appellant's brief. By order of the Court in conference this the 19th of November 2009."
