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First Simon Pulse hardcover edition January 2018

Text copyright © 2018 by Rachel Lynn Solomon

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Solomon, Rachel Lynn.

Title: You’ll miss me when I’m gone / by Rachel Lynn Solomon.

Other titles: You will miss me when I am gone

Description: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition. | New York : Simon Pulse, 2018. | Summary: Eighteen-year-old twins Adina, a viola prodigy, and Tovah, a future surgeon, find their relationship tested when they learn that one of them will develop Huntington’s, the degenerative disease ravaging their mother.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017008359 | ISBN 9781481497732 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781481497756 (eBook) Subjects: | CYAC: Sisters—Fiction. | Twins—Fiction. | Huntington’s disease—Fiction. | Sick—Fiction. | Jews—United States—Fiction. | Family life—Washington (State)—Seattle—Fiction. | Seattle (Wash.)—Fiction. Classification: LCC PZ7.1.S6695 You 2018 | DDC [Fic]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017008359