This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
AMERICA WAS HARD TO FIND. Copyright © 2019 by Kathleen Alcott. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Alcott, Kathleen, author.
Title: America was hard to find : a novel / Kathleen Alcott.
Description: New York : Ecco, [2019]
Identifiers: LCCN 2018036321 (print) | LCCN 2018037862 (ebook) | ISBN 9780062662545 (ebook) | ISBN 9780062662521 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Families--Fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3601.L344 (ebook) | LCC PS3601.L344 A82 2019 (print) | DDC 813/.6--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018036321
Digital Edition MAY 2019 ISBN: 978-0-06-266254-5
Version 04102019
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-266252-1