Harper's Magazine, January 1st, 2000
From an essay by Lee Martin in the Fall issue of The Georgia Review. Martin's memoir From Our House will be published in June by Dutton. For most of my life I balanced on the thin line between my father's brutality and my mother's compassion. We lived on a farm in southern Illinois. My mother taught grade school and also helped my father with his work, because shortly after I was born he lost both his hands in a corn picker. One Saturday in July, a group of older kids told me that Santa Claus was in the woods. He was riding a motorcycle, they said, and he had an ax. He was chopping off littl...
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