Out of the Rain

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Some of the chapters in this work were originally published in the Alaska Quarterly Review, Bull, Green Hills Literary Lantern, McSweeney’s, River Oak Review, War, Literature & the Arts, and ZYZZYVA.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Garcia, J. Malcolm, 1957- author.

Title: Out of the rain : a novel / J. Malcolm Garcia.

Description: New York : Seven Stories Press, 2024.

Identifiers: LCCN 2023046742 | ISBN 9781644213865 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9781644213872 (ebook)

Subjects: LCGFT: Novels.

Classification: LCC PS3607.A7218335 O98 2024 | DDC 813/.6--dc23/eng/20231212

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023046742

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