Copyright © 2019 by Roy Scranton

All rights reserved.

This book is a work of f iction. References to real people, events, establishments,

organizations, or locales are intended only to provide a sense of authenticity, and are used f icticiously. All other characters, and all incidents and dialogue, are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real.

Parts of this novel have been published in different form in 12th Street, LIT, and LVNG.

Excerpt from “History and Biology in the Anthropocene: Problems of Scale, Problems

of Value” by Julia Adeney Thomas, from The American Historical Review

(2014) 119 (5): 1587-1607. Used by permission of Oxford University

Press on behalf of the American Historical Society.

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Soho Press, Inc.

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New York, NY 10003

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Scranton, Roy, 1976– author.

I heart Oklahoma! / Roy Scranton.

ISBN 978-1-61695-938-8

eISBN 978-1-61695-939-5

I. Title

PS3619.C743 I25 2019 813’.6—dc23 2019003466

Interior design by Janine Agro, Soho Press, Inc.

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