Copyright © 2018 by Deborah Reed
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Reed, Deborah, author.
Title: The days when birds come back / Deborah Reed.
Description: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017044910 (print) | LCCN 2017047824 (ebook) | ISBN 978-0-544-81740-1 (ebook) | ISBN 978-0-544-81735-7 (hardcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Man-woman relationships—Fiction. | Divorced women—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Family Life. | FICTION / Contemporary Women. | GSAFD: Love stories.
Classification: LCC PS3602.R3885 (ebook) | LCC PS3602.R3885 D39 2018 (print) | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017044910
Cover design by Martha Kennedy
Cover photograph © Susan Seubert/Arcangel
Author photograph courtesy of the author
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The author is grateful for permission to quote lines from The Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press), copyright © 1951, 1955 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © renewed 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright © 1914, 1918, 1919, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1937, 1942 by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Copyright © 1952, 1957, 1958, 1963, 1965 by Mary L. Hampson.