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Copyright © 2014 by Maria Venegas
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First edition, 2014
Some portions of this book are adapted from material previously published in Granta.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Venegas, Maria, [year]
Bulletproof vest: the ballad of an outlaw and his daughter / Maria Venegas.—First edition.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-374-11731-3 (hardcover)—ISBN 978-1-4299-4416-8 (ebook)
1. Venegas, Maria, [year] 2. Children of criminals—Family relationships—Mexico. 3. Criminals—Family relationships—Mexico. 4. Fathers and daughters—Mexico. I. Title.
HV6248.V455 A3 2014
364.1092—dc23
[B]
2013038777
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A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Maria Venegas was born in the state of Zacatecas, Mexico, and immigrated to the United States when she was four years old. Bulletproof Vest was excerpted in Granta and The Guardian. Venegas’s short stories have appeared in Ploughshares and Huizache. She currently mentors students at Still Waters in a Storm, a reading and writing sanctuary for children in Bushwick, Brooklyn. She lives in New York City.
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