Everyone Wants to be Ambassador to France
Copyright © 2015, 2018 by Bryan Hurt
All Rights Reserved
No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the prior written permission of both the publisher and the copyright owner.
Stories in this collection appeared in the following publications: The American Reader, Connu, Denver Quarterly, Guernica, Hot Metal Bridge, Joyland, Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, New England Review, Salt Hill Journal, Tikkun, Tin House, The Toast, TriQuarterly, and Watchlist: 32 Stories from Persons of Interest.
Book design by Mark E. Cull
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hurt, Bryan, author.
Title: Everyone wants to be ambassador to France / Bryan Hurt.
Description: Pasadena, California: Red Hen Press, [2018]
Identifiers: LCCN 2017052115 |ISBN 9781597097000 (softcover)
eISBN 9781597097512
Classification: LCC PS3608.U779 A6 2018 | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017052115
The National Endowment for the Arts, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Ahmanson Foundation, the Dwight Stuart Youth Fund, the Max Factor Family Foundation, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Foundation, the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Audrey & Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation, the Kinder Morgan Foundation, the Allergan Foundation, the Meta & George Rosenberg Foundation, the Riordan Foundation, and the Amazon Literary Partnership partially support Red Hen Press.
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