THE OTHER SIDE OF YOUTH

Copyright © 2013 by Kelli Deeth

US edition published 2014

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The publisher gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the British Columbia Arts Council for its publishing program, and the Government of Canada (through the Canada Book Fund) and the Government of British Columbia (through the Book Publishing Tax Credit Program) for its publishing activities.

Earlier versions of some of these stories have appeared in the following publications: “The Things They Said” in Joyland; “Embrace” in Event; “End of Summer” in The New Quarterly; “A Boy’s Hand” in The Puritan; “Souvenirs” in The Rusty Toque; and “Ari” in The Dalhousie Review.

This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance of characters to persons either living or deceased is purely coincidental.

Cover photograph by Eleonora Ghioldi/Blend Images/Corbis

Editing by Susan Safyan

Book design by Gerilee McBride

Printed and bound in Canada

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Deeth, Kelli, author

The other side of youth / Kelli Deeth.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-55152-523-5 (pbk.).—ISBN 978-1-55152-524-2 (epub)

I. Title.

PS8557.E326O74 2013 C813’.6 C2013-903259-2

C2013-903260-6