I'll Be Home For The Holidays, But Only If I Stay In A Motel
"Dear Ellis," my mother had written in her careful cursive. "I'm sorry it's hard for you to stay here."
The only writer ever to have received the American Library Association Stonewall Award for Fiction twice, Ellis Avery is the author of THE LAST NUDE (Riverhead 2012) and THE TEAHOUSE FIRE (Riverhead 2007). She teaches fiction writing at Columbia University and out of her home in the West Village, NYC.
"Dear Ellis," my mother had written in her careful cursive. "I'm sorry it's hard for you to stay here."