ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks to:
Danielle Meijer, Meredith Kaffel Simonoff, Emily Bell, Javier Ramirez, H. Peter Steeves, Jackson Howard, Na Kim, Chloe Texier-Rose, Catherine Lacey, Daniel Kraus, Kathe Koja, William and Charlotte Nickell, Bonnie, Xiu Xiu, Alexander McQueen, P., and the lovers and the defenders of nature in all her forms.
ALSO BY MARYSE MEIJER
Heartbreaker: Stories
Northwood: A Novella
Rag: Stories
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Maryse Meijer is the author of the story collections Heartbreaker, which was one of Electric Literature’s 25 Best Short Story Collections of 2016, and Rag, which was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and a finalist for the Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction, as well as the novella Northwood. She lives in Chicago. You can sign up for email updates here.
CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
Begin Reading
Acknowledgments
Also by Maryse Meijer
A Note About the Author
Copyright
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First edition, 2020
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