Jon Papernick is the author of The Ascent of Eli Israel; Who by Fire, Who by Blood, and recently published short story collection There Is No Other. He teaches fiction writing at Emerson College and lives outside Boston with his wife and two sons.
I was forced to innovate and try new things that I never would have considered eating -- boiled taro root, cassava, kale, collard greens, amaranth, and virtually any sort of meat, including once, kangaroo...
