The New Yorker, November 25, 2002 P. 86
Short story about a young man who borrows his mother’s car, bails his father out of jail in the Indiana area with money he won from a debate contest, and is roped into helping him take parrots from an ex-girlfriend’s house to sell in Washington’s Metro during the Million Man March in 1995... Tells about the scene at the march and how neither of them sells any of the birds... His father gets him drunk, then beats him and runs off with the car... The narrator waits in a railway station to call his mother for money for a ticket back to Louisville, Kentucky...
