Sixty minutes before she steps in front of a speeding van, she blenders bird seeds with berries for her vegan twelve-year old, who dirties their kitchen each Saturday for some type of raw bake-off, but cannot get up...
Woman of the Hour
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Claire Polders
Claire Polders is a Dutch author of fiction and nonfiction. Her latest of five books is A Whale in Paris (Atheneum, Simon & Schuster, 2018), a historical novel for younger readers. Her short prose has been widely published in literary journals, including TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, Tin House, Electric Literature, Denver Quarterly, and Fiction International. She’s currently finishing a speculative novel for adults, writing a memoir about elder abuse in Florida, putting together two short prose collections, and collaborating on several novels for younger readers.