by Erin Saldin
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I wouldn’t have been able to complete this book without a team of childcare providers to love and nurture our daughters while I worked. So, from the bottom of my heart, thanks to: Brenna, Amanda, Sophie, Hannah, Natalie, Peggy, Nicky, Gabby, Alexa, Kristal, Jayme, Megan, Jessie, Lauren, Nicole, Phoebe, Yohanna, Shane, and Vida, and everyone else at Bambini’s, Missoula Community School, and ASUM Child Care. Huge gratitude to Liesa Abrams, Sarah McCabe, and Jessica Smith, who saw the story in the messy draft(s) and carved to set it free, and to Denise Shannon, who found the right home for this book. And for the support I received from others: Cheryl Klein, who provided an early, thoughtful response to the book; Natalie Peeterse and the Open Country Reading Series; Maria Dahvana Headley, who gave the right advice at the right time; the Montana Arts Council; everyone in the Davidson Honors College and the English Department at the University of Montana; Alex and the Parents Lloyd, who provided my Austenian writing room in Tenants Harbor, where the first sentences of this book arose; Drew and Aja, who heard those first sentences; MJ, Sierra, Caroline, and Alexa, my first readers; Daisy and Gillian, the Gucci Gucci Yamas; and Morgan, Emily, Will, Tom, Mary Pat, Jake, Kate, Emma, Megan, Kelly, and Christina, who all provided emotional support in the form of delicately posed questions and/or coffee, and/or whiskey. Thanks to Those Who Speak the Language of Music and Guitars: Tracy, Brendan, Sara, and Kevin; and to Those Who Answer Questions About Potentially Incriminating Things About Which They Have No Firsthand Experience: Tait, Marielle, Andy, and Elwyn. I’m grateful for my supportive family: my parents and my sister, who believed in me before I wrote a single word; and Tom and Sue, who provided a writing room in McCall and gave me crucial information on the science of dock maintenance. But finally, my love and respect and gratitude go to Rob, who did all of the above and then some. Rob, you’re the Better.
This book was written in memory of Miriam Shea, the original pipe-smoking spitfire. She was lucky to have a family who cherished her, and I was lucky to be folded into that family through my friendship with her.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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ERIN SALDIN is the author of the young adult novel The Girls of No Return (Scholastic, 2012). Erin has lived in West Africa, Brooklyn, and a cabin off the grid in the remote Klamath Mountains of Oregon. She holds an MFA from the University of Virginia, and her short stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Best New American Voices, and Gulf Coast, among other publications. Erin lives in Missoula, Montana, with her partner, two daughters, and a dog, and she teaches at the Davidson Honors College at the University of Montana.
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Saldin, Erin, author.
Title: The Dead Enders / by Erin Saldin.
Description: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition. | New York : Simon Pulse, 2018. | Summary: Ana, Davis, Erik, and Georgie, bound together by tragedy, want nothing more than to escape the small tourist town of Gold Fork, but an arsonist and the return of long-lost family members force them to confront the past.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017056049 (print) | LCCN 2018000718 (eBook) |
ISBN 9781481490337 (hc) | ISBN 9781481490429 (eBook)
Subjects: | CYAC: Friendship—Fiction. | Secrets—Fiction. |
Arson—Fiction. | Summer resorts—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.S1494 (eBook) |
LCC PZ7.S1494 De 2018 (print) | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017056049
ISBN 978-1-4814-9042-9 (ebook)
Table of Contents
Dedication
Gold Fork is . . .
June
Where the Weekenders are Always Jealous
Where you Always Know your Place
Genus Weekendus: The Species List
Where the Summer Begins
Where you Get What you Want When you Want it
Where the Lake is All yours
Where Adventure Awaits
Where the Men are
July
Where there are no Excuses
Where Everything’s Available
August
Where there’s Nothing to Lose
September
Where Sometimes you Lose
Where Sometimes you Win
Gold Fork is
Suicide Prevention and Awareness Resources
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright