Excerpt from News of Our Loved Ones by Abigail DeWitt, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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.

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