By the time she was eleven, the house was deep in old-age quiet. She had tender breasts already and my God, what looked like hips, said the Shapiro aunts, turning her this way and that in the kitchen. Her mother and the aunts kept her well-surrounded: no dark fact could break into this picture, dirty it up or confuse it. But it was 1936, and her father's store was in trouble, and something else was wrong. His eyesight was failing,
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—Marjorie Sandor, from Portrait of My Mother, Who Posed Nude in Wartime

Mark Jarman is interviewed by the Savannah Morning News.

Lia Purpura's Rough Likeness is reviewed in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

The 2012 Kathryn A. Morton and Mary McCarthy contests are now open for submission! Click here to submit your manuscript electronically.

03-20-2012
Hoodwinked

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