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Portions of this book originally appeared in different form in the short story
“Brain Jelly” in Conjunctions 52: Spring 2009.

Print book designed by Marie Mundaca

ISBN 978-0-316-12627-4
LCCN 2019937209

E320191211-DA-NF-ORI