Jessica Francis Kane was born in Berkeley, California, and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, before graduating from Yale. She is the author of two story collections, Bending Heaven and This Close, as well as the novel The Report, which is being adapted for stage and film. Kane lives in New York City with her husband and their two children.

My Strength Is That of a Hundred Men Because My Heart Is Pure

An iStory

by Jessica Francis Kane

She’d like her son to know she’s strong. Fifteen years of keeping him safe all by herself have done it. She says, “Try and get my fingers off the steering wheel. See if you can do it.”

This tall, handsome boy of hers in the passenger seat tries and cannot.

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