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by Julianna Baggott


  I want to thank my husband, Dave Scott, who endures my fits of frustration and let me read these pages aloud to him, day after day, and who knows his way around a fight scene. I’m thankful for all of those who read early drafts—Alix Reid, Frank Giampietro, Kate Peterson, Kirsten Carleton, and Heather Whitaker, brilliant minds; and special thanks to my agents, Nat Sobel, Judith Weber, and Justin Manask, who believe in me, push me, and help me navigate the world. I’m thankful for Karen Rosenfelt and Emmy Castlen—I admire them so much and am honored that they responded to the novel as they did. I’m thankful for all of my overseas editors, and my editor here at home, Jaime Levine—thank you, thank you, thank you.

  The research for this novel led me to accounts of the effects of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. During the editing process, I found the nonfiction book Last Train from Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino, which is not currently being sold by its publisher. It was a crucial read for me because of its depictions of those lost and those who survived. I hope a revised edition finds its way back onto shelves. And I hope, in general, that Pure directs people to nonfiction accounts of the atomic bomb—horrors we cannot afford to forget.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Julianna Baggott, critically acclaimed, bestselling author who also writes under the pen names Bridget Asher and N. E. Bode, has published seventeen books, including novels for adults, younger readers, and collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Best American Poetry, Best Creative Nonfiction, Real Simple, on NPR.org, as well as read on NPR’s Talk of the Nation and Here and Now. Her novels have been book-pick selections by People magazine’s summer reading, Washington Post book-of-the-week, a Booksense selection, a Boston Herald Book Club selection, and on the Kirkus Best Books of the Year list. Her novels have been published in over fifty overseas editions. She’s a professor in the Creative Writing program at Florida State University and the founder of the nonprofit Kids in Need—Books in Deed.

  Books by Julianna Baggott

  Girl Talk

  The Miss America Family

  The Madam

  Which Brings Me to You, co-written with Steve Almond

  This Country of Mothers, poetry

  Lizzie Borden in Love, poetry

  Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees, poetry

  The Prince of Fenway Park, for younger readers

  The Ever Breath, for younger readers

  Under the Pen Name Bridget Asher

  My Husband’s Sweethearts

  The Pretend Wife

  The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted

  Under the Pen Name N. E. Bode

  The Anybodies Trilogy, for younger readers

  The Slippery Map, for younger readers

  The Amazing Compendium of Edward Magorium, for younger readers

  Contents

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  WELCOME

  DEDICATION

  PROLOGUE

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  EPILOGUE

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  BOOKS BY JULIANNA BAGGOTT

  COPYRIGHT

  Copyright

  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

  Copyright © 2012 by Julianna Baggott

  All rights reserved. In accordance with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, the scanning, uploading, and electronic sharing of any part of this book without the permission of the publisher is unlawful piracy and theft of the author’s intellectual property. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher at [email protected]. Thank you for your support of the author’s rights.

  Grand Central Publishing

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  First e-book Edition: February 2012

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  ISBN 978-1-4555-0304-9

 

 

 


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