Short stories by Katherine Shonk
Katherine Shonk is the author of Happy Now?(Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010), a novel set in Chicago, and The Red Passport (FSG, 2003), a short story collection set in Russia. Her writing has appeared in Tin House, Best American Short Stories 2001, StoryQuarterly, The Georgia Review, The Moscow Times, The Chicago Tribune, Cicada, and elsewhere. She has received an award and a fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council, and The Red Passport was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year. Shonk lives in her hometown of Evanston, Illinois with her husband and daughter and has worked long-distance for many years as a writer and editor for Harvard University.
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A mother must learn to reorient her family's dynamics when the Chernobyl disaster in their hometown separates them from their grandmother, who chooses to stay inside the contaminated area.