Janey lived in the locked room.Twice a day the Persian slave trader came in and taught her be a whore.Otherwise ther was nothing.One day she found a pencial stub and scrap of paper in a forgotten corner of the room. She began to write down her life, starting with "Parents stink"(her father,who is also her boyfriend,has fallen in love with another woman and is about to leave her).
Born to a wealthy Jewish family in Manhattan, New York City, Acker took her last name from her first husband, Robert Acker; though born as Karen, she was known as Kathy by her friends and family. She studied classics as an undergraduate at Brandeis University and aspired to write novels but moved to San Diego to further pursue her studies. Acker's first work appeared in print a...
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