All the Right Reasons

Amanda Harris
Aug 28, 2017 · 1 min read

The girl walked into her school’s office and asked if they have any counselors. “We don’t do that”, they told her, and the anger ate her up. The end of the story isn’t that she stayed angry. The end is that her school forgave in the form of a blank check made out to her home address.

— The New Yorker
— between sand and gravel
— (Penguin, 2019)

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Amanda Harris

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Author of Rage (Penguin, 2015). Author of #bagpipecity (Penguin, 2016). Author of No Surrender (Penguin, 2017).

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