The Raising

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE RAISING. Copyright © 2011 by Laura Kasischke. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, 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 hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

EPub Edition March 2011 ISBN: 9780062042385

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kasischke, Laura, 1961–

The raising : a novel / Laura Kasischke.—1st ed.

p.cm.

ISBN 978-0-06-200478-9

1. Psychological fiction. I. Title.

PS3561.A6993S88 2011

813'.54—dc22

2010021605

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