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Park sang joon Posted 11 years ago
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A firefighter in rural Kentucky, Ursa searches for her place in life, struggling to meet her own expectations. When a tornado hits her town, the ensuing chaos brings her world into sharp focus, somehow making everything clearer, and Ursa finds that she just can’t stomach the way her life is going. It is then that she meets Rafi, an illegal immigrant whose life isn’t going the way he’d pictured it either. Their encounter is the catalyst for Ursa and Rafi, who take different roads to the realization that wanting your life to change isn’t enough to make it happen.

Slow Storm stands apart as a graphic novel with its literary heart and charged, atmospheric watercolor and ink artwork. The storm builds around the characters and inside them, and moments of violence and tenderness suddenly crack like lightning. With Slow Storm, Danica Novgorodoff takes her place as a talent to be reckoned with in the literary world.

I'd like to know what meaning "stomach the way" has.
And I'd like to know what meaning "takes her place as a talent" has.
Thank you in advance for your help.
  

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park sang joon I'd like to know what meaning "stomach the way" has. she just can’t stomach the way her life is going. = She hates her life, she is going nowhere, everything is against her, etc.

  • park sang joon I'd like to know what meaning "stomach the way" has.
  • she just can’t stomach the way her life is going.
  • = She hates her life, she is going nowhere, everything is against her, etc.
  • com/no+stomach+for%2c+have park sang joon Danica Novgorodoff takes her place as a talent to be reckoned with in the literary world.
  • She assumes her natural position (she is recognized) as a very talented person.
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park sang joonI'd like to know what meaning "stomach the way" has.
she just can’t stomach the way her life is going. = She hates her life, she is going nowhere, everything is against her, etc. http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/stomach
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I'd like to know what meaning "stomach the way" has. She can't tolerate / accept / endure the way her life is going.

A simpler example is I have to find a new job. I can't stomach my boss's rudeness.

And I'd like to know what meaning "takes her place as a talent" ha

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