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© 2015 Lorraine M. López
All rights reserved. Published 2015

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ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-3183-7 (paper)

Cover designed by Leigh McDonald
Cover photo adapted from Reading by Alexander Lyubavin

Publication of this book is made possible in part by the proceeds of a permanent endowment created with the assistance of a Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
López, Lorraine, 1956– author.
 The darling / Lorraine M. Lopez.
    pages cm — (Camino del sol : a Latina and Latino literary series)
 ISBN 978-0-8165-3183-7 (pbk. : alk. paper)
I. Title. II. Series: Camino del sol.
PS3612.O635D37 2015
813’.6—dc23

2014041932

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