Things to Make and Break

First U.S. edition published 2018

Cover illustration © Carolyn Swiszcz

Cover design by Christina Vang

Book design by Ann Sudmeier

Author photograph © Bettina Volke

First published in the United Kingdom by CB Editions in 2014

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Names: Tan, May-Lan, author.

Title: Things to make and break / May-Lan Tan.

Description: First U.S. edition. | Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2018. | “First published in the United Kingdom by CB Editions in 2014”—ECIP galley.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018011504 | ISBN 9781566895354 (eBook)

Classification: LCC PR6120.A46 A6 2018 | DDC 823/.92—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018011504

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

“Legendary” first appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, “DD-MM-YY” in Areté, “101” in the Reader, and “Julia K.” in the Atlas Review.

The author is grateful to her mother and her father and to Siu-Lan Tan, Danny Kim, David Riding, Kevin Sampsell, and Gordon Lish. Special thanks to Emily Gould and Ruth Curry.

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