The Brutal Language of Love

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Acknowledgment is made to the publications in which these stories first appeared: “Bikini” in The Sun; “Standing Up to the Superpowers” in Confrontation; “Almonds and Cherries” in The Iowa Review; “Lass” in Zoetrope; “When Animals Attack” in The Barcelona Review; “Alcatraz” in Nerve.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Erian, Alicia.
The brutal language of love : stories / Alicia Erian.
p. cm.
1. Love stories, American. 2. Young women—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3555.R4265B78 2001
813'.6—dc21

ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-9713-1
ISBN-10: 1-4165-9713-1

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