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Copyright © 2023 by Brandon Taylor

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Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint lines from the poem “A Top Won’t Save You But Neither Will Prayer” by Derrick Austin. First published in MumberMag (December 28, 2020).

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Taylor, Brandon (Brandon L. G.), author.

Title: The late Americans / Brandon Taylor.

Description: New York : Riverhead Books, 2023.

Identifiers: LCCN 2022021915 (print) | LCCN 2022021916 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593332337 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593332351 (ebook)

Subjects: LCGFT: Novels.

Classification: LCC PS3620.A93534 L38 2023 (print) | LCC PS3620.A93534 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022021915

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022021916

International edition ISBN: 9780593713037

Cover design: Stephanie Ross

Cover art: Logan T. Sibrel, Chin Smooch, 2020 / Courtesy of the artist and 1969 Gallery

Book design by Cassandra Garruzzo Mueller, adapted for ebook by Maggie Hunt

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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