Heart Spring Mountain
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Gratitude to Julia Kenny, agent supreme, for keeping my (mercurial) spirits above water.
Gratitude to Megan Lynch, editor supreme, for the brilliance, the clarity, and the unflinching faith.
Gratitude to the heart-strong and capable team at Ecco (a ship of dreams), especially Sonya Cheuse, Miriam Parker, James Faccinto, and Emma Dries.
Gratitude to Sara Wood for the matchless cover art.
Gratitude to Margaret Wimberger for keeping my lines true.
Gratitude to Jennifer Bowen Hicks, a phenom, for being there, always.
Gratitude to my parents—optimists, pragmatists—for getting back to the land.
Gratitude to my grandmother Margaret for her songs, her spunk, and her beautiful time of dying.
Gratitude to my grandfather John for his love of owls, his knowledge of stars, and his beautiful time of dying.
Gratitude to Ty, my rock, my roll, my poet supreme.
And last (but never least), gratitude to my children, A and O, wild at heart, for being my reason, my cause, and my hope in the dark. I write for you, darlings.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ROBIN MACARTHUR lives and works on the farm where she was born in Vermont. She is the author of Half Wild: Stories (winner of the 2017 PEN/ New England Award for Fiction), editor of Contemporary Vermont Fiction: An Anthology, and one-half of the indie folk duo Red Heart the Ticker.
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ALSO BY ROBIN MACARTHUR
Half Wild
CREDITS
COVER DESIGN BY SARA WOOD
COVER PHOTOGRAPHS: FARM © AUDREY WALEYKO; BRANCHES © SHUTTERSTOCK
COPYRIGHT
The song “Them Stars” is based on the anonymous poem “Star Planters,” which was found in the Ben Gray Lumpkin Archives at the University of Colorado and set to music by Margaret MacArthur on her album Them Stars (1996). Lyrics used with the permission of her family.
Lines from No Word from Time: The Way of the Algonquin People by Evan T. Pritchard are used with the permission of the author. The book is available from Millichap Books LLC of Graham, North Carolina (www.millichapbooks.com). More information can be found at www .algonquinculture.org.
HEART SPRING MOUNTAIN. Copyright © 2018 by Robin MacArthur. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
FIRST EDITION
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: MacArthur, Robin, author.
Title: Heart spring mountain : a novel / Robin MacArthur.
Description: First edition. | New York : Ecco, [2018] | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017013627 (print) | LCCN 2017022464 (ebook) | ISBN 9780062444455 (ebook) | ISBN 9780062444424 (hardback)
Digital Edition January 2018 ISBN 9780062444455
Subjects: LCSH: Domestic fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Family Life.
Classification: LCC PS3613.A244 (ebook) | LCC PS3613.A244 H43 2018 (print) | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017013627
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