You Are Not a Stranger Here

Copyright

Some of the stories in this book have appeared, in different form, in the following publications: “Notes to My Biographer” in Zoetrope All-Story, “Devotion” in The Yale Review, “War’s End” in BOMB magazine, “The Beginnings of Grief” in The James White Review, and “Reunion” in The Alembic. The quote that appears on pages 184–185 is from the novel Affliction by Russel Banks.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, 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.

Book design by Gretchen Achilles

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Haslett, Adam. You are not a stranger here / Adam Haslett. p. cm.

I. Title.

PS3608.A85 Y68 2002

813’.6—dc21

2001054839

eISBN 0-385-50962-6

Copyright (c) 2002 by Adam Haslett

All Rights Reserved

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