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Flowering Judas
short story by Porter
Flowering Judas, short story by Katherine Anne Porter, published in Hound and Horn magazine in 1930. It is the title story of Porterās first and most popular collection, which was published in the same year. When the collection was reissued in 1935, four stories were added to make a total of 10.
āFlowering Judasā is set in Mexico in 1920 during the Mexican Revolution and concerns the attempts of Laura, a beautiful young American teacher of Indian children and a clandestine worker for the revolutionary cause, to rationalize her actions as she faces the loss of her ideals.
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