francine j. harris: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch] ___ Portrait of My Father Mocking Sammy Davis Jr. He widens an eye and gets down on one knee. He accepts a sliver of silver from my mother and kisses her behind. He calls her Frank Sinatra. He calls our house the Rat Pack...
francine j. harrisis the author of three collections, includingHere is the Sweet Hand,which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Originally from Detroit, she has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and the Cullman Center for Scholars and Wr...