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Editor for the Press: Jennifer Knoch

Cover design: Michel Vrana

Author photo: Karolina Turek

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, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: Help! I’m alive : a novel / Gurjindrer Basran.

Other titles: Help! I am alive

Names: Basran, Gurjinder, author.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20210344393 | Canadiana (ebook) 20210344407

ISBN 978-1-77041-630-7 (softcover)

ISBN 978-1-77305-928-0 (ePub)

ISBN 978-1-77305-929-7 (PDF)

ISBN 978-1-77305-930-3 (Kindle)

Classification: LCC PS8603.A789 H45 2022 | DDC C813/.6—dc23

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. This book is funded in part by the Government of Canada. Ce livre est financé en partie par le gouvernement du Canada. We acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), an agency of the Government of Ontario, which last year funded 1,965 individual artists and 1,152 organizations in 197 communities across Ontario for a total of $51.9 million. We also acknowledge the support of the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit, and through Ontario Creates.

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