MARY O’CONNELL, a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, is the author of the novels Dear Reader and The Sharp Time and the story collection Living With Saints. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in several literary magazines, and she is the recipient of a James Michener Fellowship and a Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Award.
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(selected as a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2018)
(selected as a notable essay in The Best American Essays 2018)