Rumpus Exclusive: An Excerpt from I, Parrot

 

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From I, Parrot, forthcoming on November 1. Used with permission of Catapult and Black Balloon. Copyright 2017 by Elizabeth Haidle and Deb Olin Unferth.

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Deb Olin Unferth is the author of four books, including Wait Till You See Me Dance and Revolution, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her fiction has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, the Paris Review, Granta, and Tin House. She lives in Austin, Texas. Elizabeth Haidle is a freelance artist based in Portland, Oregon. She is the creative director and regular contributor at Illustoria magazine, while writing and illustrating a nonfiction graphic novel series and raising her teenage son.

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