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First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
Copyright © Cherise Wolas 2018
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Cherise Wolas asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Source ISBN: 9780008201197
Ebook Edition © AUGUST 2018 ISBN: 9780008201210
Version: 2019-05-10
For the girl from Port Colborne and the boy from the Bronx,
who found each other and married,
and became and remain my parents.
It was the mind that was woven, the mind that was jerked
And tufted in straggling thunder and shattered sun.
—Wallace Stevens
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
—Anne Sexton
Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Good Samaritan
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Empire of Knowledge
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Chapter Thirty-Four
Chapter Thirty-Five
Chapter Thirty-Six
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Valley of the Shadow
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Chapter Thirty-Nine
Chapter Forty
Chapter Forty-One
Chapter Forty-Two
Chapter Forty-Three
Chapter Forty-Four
