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Text copyright © 2016 by Frances O’Roark Dowell
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dowell, Frances O’Roark.
Trouble the water / Frances O’Roark Dowell. — First edition.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-4814-2463-9 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4814-2465-3 (eBook)
[1. Race relations—Fiction.
2. Segregation—Fiction. 3. African Americans—Fiction.
4. Dogs—Fiction. 5. Family life—Kentucky—Fiction.
6. Underground Railroad—Fiction. 7. Kentucky—History—20th century—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.D75455Tro 2017 [Fic]—dc23 2014045331