This Is a Borzoi Book
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Copyright © 1996 by Shelby Hearon
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American
Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada
by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Distributed
by Random House, Inc., New York.

Portions of this book appeared in different form in
Southwest Review.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hearon, Shelby.
Footprints / by Shelby Hearon.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-80047-3
1. Married women—United States—Fiction.
2. Adult children—Death—Fiction.
I. Title.
PS3558.E256F6    1996
813’.54—dc20        95-42853

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