Rose, Bean and Cordy were named after the Bard's well-known Rosalind, Bianca and Cordelia, respectively — which tells you something about their overzealous Shakespearean academic father. As he raises them, he continuously recites poetry as a form of parental advice. But the Shakespeare overkill in Brown's fictional family hints at deeper issues that the father and sisters must deal with when they learn that their mother has been diagnosed with breast