The Whore's Child
And Other Stories
by Richard Russo This is a collection of seven short stories. The title story is narrated by a college professor teaching a writing workshop. A nun comes to his class, and begins writing the story of her childhood in a convent as the daughter of a whore. In the convent, the girl is woefully mistreated, and she constantly prays for the demise of the nuns and the return of her father. Only to find out *Bleep Bleep Bleep...Ending Giveaway Warning...Warning...If you don't want to see the ending before reading the story, look away. Bleep Bleep Bleep* from one of her fellow students that her "father" was really her mother's pimp.
All of the stories are wryly and artfully narrated. Three cover the lives of authors/ English professors, which suggests that the stories have an element of autobiography in them, in this case a good thing.
Happy reading.
