Prose #19: Constance Adler

"Nonna Tears Apart a Chicken," by Constance Adler

A young woman compares her grandmothers' colorful, complicated histories to her own.

This is the nineteenth installment of the Belle Point Prose Series, an ongoing collection of short prose works by Mid-Southern writers.

Constance Adler is the author of the memoir My Bayou: New Orleans Through the Eyes of a Lover (Michigan State University Press). Her stories have appeared in Oxford American, Utne Reader, Garden & Gun, River Teeth Journal, Blackbird, and Peauxdunque Review, among others. “Nonna Tears Apart a Chicken” is an excerpt from her novel Sight Unseen, which is forthcoming from ELJ Editions in 2025. She lives near Bayou Saint John in New Orleans.

• Publication Date: March 2024
• Trim size: 5 x 7 inches

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