Joan is a work of historical fiction. Apart from the well-known actual people, events, and locales that figure in the narrative, all names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to current events or locales, or to living persons, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2022 by Katherine J. Chen

Map copyright © 2022 by David Lindroth, Inc.

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Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

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Epigraph from Joan of Arc: La Pucelle, selected sources translated and annotated by Craig Taylor (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2006), pg. 84. Copyright © 2006 by Craig Taylor.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Chen, Katherine J., author.

Title: Joan: a novel / by Katherine J. Chen.

Description: New York: Random House [2022] |

Identifiers: LCCN 2021034296 (print) | LCCN 2021034297 (ebook) | ISBN 9781984855800 (hardcover; acid-free paper) | ISBN 9781984855817 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Joan, of Arc, Saint, 1412–1431—Fiction. | LCGFT: Biographical fiction. | Historical fiction. | Novels.

Classification: LCC PS3603.H4485 J63 2022 (print) | LCC PS3603.H4485 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2021034296

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/​2021034297

Ebook ISBN 9781984855817

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