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Copyright © 2015 by Virginie Despentes and Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle
Translation copyright © 2018 by Frank Wynne
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Originally published in French in 2015 by Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle, France
English translation originally published in 2018 by MacLehose Press, Great Britain
Published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First American edition, 2020
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, organizations, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, places, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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