Copyright © 2019 by Sam Savage

Cover design by Kyle G. Hunter

Book design by Rachel Holscher

Author photograph © Nancy Marshall

Front cover images: duck © Ihor.K/Shutterstock.com, scribble © Katerina Pereverzeva/Shutterstock.com, cloud © MaxterDesign/Shutterstock.com, scissors © Roman Sotola/Shutterstock.com, and paper © Skylines/Shutterstock.com

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Savage, Sam, 1940–author.

Title: An orphanage of dreams / Sam Savage.

Description: Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2019.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018027628 (print) | LCCN 2018028475 (ebook) | ISBN 9781566895392 | ISBN 9781566895309 (trade pbk.)

Classification: LCC PS3619.A84 (ebook) | LCC PS3619.A84 A6 2019 (print) | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018027628

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