This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2019 by Lisa Howorth
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.
DOUBLEDAY and the portrayal of an anchor with a dolphin are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
Hal Leonard LLC: Lyric excerpt from “Three Cool Cats,” words and music by Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller, copyright © 1959 by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, copyright renewed. All rights administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Lyric excerpt from “The Twelfth of Never,” words by Paul Francis Webster and music by Jerry Livingston, copyright © 1956 and renewed by Webster Music Co. and Hallmark Music Company. All rights for Hallmark Music Company controlled and administered by Spirit Two Music, Inc. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Hal Leonard LLC. New Directions Publishing Corp.: Excerpt from “Canto LXXXI” from The Pisan Cantos, copyright © 1948 by Ezra Pound. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.
A portion of this work first appeared as “Ode to Chesapeake Bay” in the August/September 2017 issue of Garden & Gun.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Howorth, Lisa, author.
Title: Summerlings : a novel / Lisa Howorth.
Description: New York : Doubleday, 2019.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018053370 (print) | LCCN 2019002780 (ebook) | ISBN 978038554658 (ebook) | ISBN 9780385544641 (hardcover)
Subjects: | BISAC: FICTION / Historical. | FICTION / Literary. | GSAFD: Bildungsromans.
Classification: LCC PS3608.O95729 (ebook) | LCC PS3608.O95729 S86 2019 (print) | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018053370
Ebook ISBN 9780385544658
Cover design by Mark Abrams
Cover photographs: landscape © kieferpix/iStock/Getty Images Plus; kids © Lyn Randle/Trevillion Images
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