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First Plume Printing, June 2002

Copyright © Karen Joy Fowler, 2001

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The Library of Congress has catalogued the Putnam edition as follows:

Fowler, Karen Joy.

Sister noon : a novel/Karen Joy Fowler.

p.  cm.

“A Marian Wood book”

ISBN: 978-1-101-65984-7

1. San Francisco (Calif.)—Fiction. 2. Women—Fiction.  I. Title.

PS3556.0844        S57 2001        00-046025

813’.54—dc21

Original hardcover design by Amanda Dewey

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