Pearl Abraham – Michigan Quarterly Review

Pearl Abraham

Pearl Abraham is the author of, most recently, The Seventh Beggar and American Taliban. The Seventh Beggar was a finalist for the Koret Inter’l Award in Fiction. Animal Voices, Mineral Hum, her first collection of stories, was shortlisted for the 2018 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction by Judge Aimee Bender. Her essays and stories have appeared on LitHub, Longreads, Michigan Quarterly and Epoch. “For the Sins…” was a notable in Best American Essays. “Hasidic Noir,” from Brooklyn Noir, received the Shamus award for best short story. Abraham is the founding editor of the literary webpage SforSentence.com. She is also Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Western New England University.

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Deep Throat

Whistleblowers, according to Fred Alford’s study, do not achieve redemption. They are not, in the majority of cases, acknowledged as heroes or truth tellers. Whistle blowing is rather an act of self-sacrifice, a suicide mission.

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Whistleblowers, according to Fred Alford’s study, do not achieve redemption. They are not, in the majority of cases, acknowledged as heroes or truth tellers. Whistle blowing is rather an act of self-sacrifice, a suicide mission.

“Deep Throat,” by Pearl Abraham

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In 1974, the year Richard Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment, my father, a man with rabbinic aspirations, was deep in his own pickle, indicted for conspiracy and fraud in the federal summer school lunch program.

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In 1974, the year Richard Nixon resigned to avoid impeachment, my father, a man with rabbinic aspirations, was deep in his own pickle, indicted for conspiracy and fraud in the federal summer school lunch program.

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