Verge

Copyright

Riverhead Books

An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC

penguinrandomhouse.com

Copyright © 2020 by Lidia Yuknavitch

Penguin supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any part of it in any form without permission. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin to continue to publish books for every reader.

Some stories have been previously published, in slightly different form, in the following journals:

“Street Walker” (as “Bravo America”) in Ms. magazine; “The Garden of Earthly Delights” in Another Chicago Magazine; “Second Language” in Guernica; “Cusp” in Zyzzyva; “Shooting” in Fiction International; “How to Lose an I” (as “Eye of the Beholder”) in The Iowa Review.

Riverhead and the R colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Yuknavitch, Lidia.

Title: Verge : stories / Lidia Yuknavitch.

Description: New York : Riverhead Books, 2020.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018058037 (print) | LCCN 2019000954 (ebook) | ISBN 9780525534877 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780525534891 (ebook)

Classification: LCC PS3575.U35 (ebook) | LCC PS3575.U35 V47 2020 (print) | DDC 813/.54—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018058037

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

pid_prh_5.5.0_c0_r0