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The author gratefully acknowledges permission to reprint the excerpt from William Goyen, The House of Breath. Copyright © 1949, 1950 by William Goyen. TriQuarterly Books/Northwestern University Press edition published 1999 by arrangement with the Doris Roberts and the Charles William Goyen Trust. All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Steinke, René.
Friendswood : a novel / René Steinke.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-698-14479-8
1. Families—Texas—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3569.T37926F75 2014 2014012106
813'.54—dc23
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.