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News of Our Loved Ones by Abigail DeWitt

News of Our Loved Ones

by Abigail DeWitt
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  • Oct 2, 2018, 240 pages
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  • Dec 2019, 256 pages
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The clock struck one thirty and though he’d never come that early, not once, the sound of the planes overhead became confused in her mind with the whisper of his bicycle tires, so that it was only as her clothes burst into flames that she gave up hoping it was he.

Excerpted from News of Our Loved Ones by Abigail DeWitt. Copyright © 2018 by Abigail DeWitt. Excerpted by permission of Harper. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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