Spoonbenders

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2017 by Daryl Gregory

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Gregory, Daryl, author.

Title: Spoonbenders : a novel / Daryl Gregory.

Description: First edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016047297 (print) | LCCN 2016058405 (ebook) | ISBN 9781524731823 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781524731830 (ebook) | ISBN 9781524711245 (open market)

Subjects: LCSH: Psychic ability—Fiction. | Domestic fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Family Life. | FICTION / Literary. | GSAFD: Humorous fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3607.R48836 S68 2017 (print) | LCC PS3607.R48836 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2016047297

Ebook ISBN 9781524731830

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Cover design by Oliver Munday

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