Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

18 West 18th Street, New York 10011

Copyright © 2012 by Robin Sloan

All rights reserved

First edition, 2012

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sloan, Robin, 1979–

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour bookstore / Robin Sloan. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-374-21491-3 (alk. paper)

1. Bookstores — Employees — Fiction. 2. Bookstores — California — San Francisco — Fiction. I. Title. II. Title: Mister Penumbra’s twenty-four hour bookstore.

PS3619.L6278M77 2012

813'.6—dc23

2012012357

www.fsgbooks.com

e-ISBN: 9780374708832

This is a work of fiction. All the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.