If I Were the Ocean, I’d Carry You Home
Copyright © 2022 by Pete Hsu
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No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the prior written permission of both the publisher and the copyright owner.
Book design by Mark E. Cull
Names: Hsu, Pete, 1972– author.
Title: If I were the ocean, I’d carry you home: stories / Peter Hsu.
Other titles: If I were the ocean, I’d carry you home (Compilation)
Description: First edition. | Pasadena, CA: Red Hen Press, [2022] | “2020 Red Hen Press Fiction Award.”
Identifiers: LCCN 2022007381 | ISBN 9781636280530 (paperback) | ISBN 9781636280547 (ebook)
Subjects: LCGFT: Short stories.
Classification: LCC PS3608.S885 I38 2022 |
DDC 813/.6—dc23/eng/20220302
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022007381
The National Endowment for the Arts, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the Ahmanson Foundation, the Dwight Stuart Youth Fund, the Max Factor Family Foundation, the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Foundation, the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, the Audrey & Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation, the Kinder Morgan Foundation, the Meta & George Rosenberg Foundation, the Albert and Elaine Borchard Foundation, the Adams Family Foundation, the Riordan Foundation, Amazon Literary Partnership, the Sam Francis Foundation, and the Mara W. Breech Foundation partially support Red Hen Press.
First Edition
Published by Red Hen Press