Huge gratitude to Chris Adrian, for generosity and brilliance beyond belief, and for understanding what I was up to in a way not even I did.
Thank you to my family, for everything, always.
And I need to reach beyond the grave to thank Vincent van Gogh, the man himself, whose life and brilliance in words and pictures provided the inspiration for this novel and afforded me a fascinating and ever-complicated home to live in for a number of years.
ALSO BY NELLIE HERMANN
The Cure for Grief
A Note About the Author
Nellie Hermann was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her first novel, The Cure for Grief, was published in 2008. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University and has taught and lectured widely on the use of creativity in nontraditional contexts.
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Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint excerpts from Vincent van Gogh—The Letters: The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition, 6 volumes, edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten, and Nienke Bakker, London/Amsterdam, 2009 (www.vangoghletters.org).
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hermann, Nellie, 1978–
The season of migration / Nellie Hermann. — First edition.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-374-25547-3 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-0-374-71173-3 (ebook)
1. Gogh, Vincent van, 1853–1890—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3608.E7636 S43 2015
813'.6—dc23
2014017263
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