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The epigraph is from Alice Munro’s story “Open Secrets,” published in the collection Open Secrets (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994).
First published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Designed by Jonathan D. Lippincott
eISBN 9781429923989
First eBook Edition : May 2011
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Weber, Katharine, 1955-
The little women / Katharine Weber. p. cm.
ISBN 0-312-42309-8
EAN 978-0312-42309-4
1. Autobiographical fiction—Authorship—Fiction. 2. Women college students—Fiction. 3. New Haven (Conn.)—Fiction. 4. Parent and child—Fiction. 5. Teenage girls—Fiction. 6. Adultery—Fiction. 7. Sisters—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3573.E2194L58 2003
813’.54—dc21
2003044062