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Copyright © 2019 by Leah Hager Cohen
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Cohen, Leah Hager, author.
Title: Strangers and cousins: a novel / Leah Hager Cohen.
Description: New York: Riverhead Books, 2019.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018015113| ISBN 9781594634833 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780698409644 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Domestic fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3553.O42445 S77 2019 | DDC 813/.54—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018015113
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.
Cover design: Grace Han
Cover images: (birds, top) Based on illustration by R. Bruce Horsfall, originally published in Birds of the Pacific Coast by Willard Ayres Eliot (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1923); (bird, bottom) Based on illustration by Alexander Wilson, originally published in American Ornithology (Cassell, Petter & Galpin)