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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Author’s Note
Epigraph
1. Shooting Star
2. One for My Lady Love
3. Girls, Unmarried as Yet
4. A Course in Old Maids
5. The Promise of His Birth
6. A Glass Full of Cyanide
7. Paper Dolls
8. Hell’s Kitchen
9. A Cottage on Cape Cod
10 A Woman of Spare Effects
11. The Rideau Canal
12. They Dance for Rain
13. Her Head Was Spinning
14. Guardian Angel
15. The Old King Must Die
16. A Second Honeymoon
17. Ariel
18. Hotel Pennsylvania
19. A Need for Secrecy
20. Quicksilver Love
21. The Telegram
22. A Ceremonial Virgin
23. A Bonfire on the Beach
24. A Practical Joke
25. Stranger from Another Planet
26. The Arena Has Always Been About Blood
27. A Hopeless Muddle
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Copyright
THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS.
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COMING OF AGE. Copyright © 2017 by Deborah Beatriz Blum. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Cover design by Young Jin Lim
Cover photographs: © Margaret Mead standing between two Samoan girls, ca. 1926. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division, South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1925–1977, Library of Congress; © Margaret Mead and Luther Sheeleigh Cressman, ca. 1917–18. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
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First Edition: July 2017
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