5/9/2023 0 Comments Rosa Parks by Rosa Parks![]() ![]() ![]() Janet Desaulniers’ fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, TriQuarterly, The North American Review, and Ploughshares, among other publications, and has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, an Emerging Fiction Writer of Illinois award, four fellowships and three finalist awards from the Illinois Arts Council, along with prizes from Glimmer Train and Ploughshares magazines, citation among the 100 Distinguished Stories of the year by the Best American Short Stories, and inclusion in the Pushcart Prize anthology. These only two blood relatives in Ellie’s life cause her to pause and think about the idea of choice, and of freedom. Uncle Frank, an ex-army vet living with them, has problems of his own. He has a constant ‘nervous’ stomachache and she has to leave work to pick him up, wondering if her and her husband’s choice to share custody has affected Cody’s experience of the world. Ellie’s young son Cody doesn’t like school. ![]()
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