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

Copyright © 2022 by Quan Barry

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to HarperCollins Publishers for permission to reprint excerpts from Essential Tibetan Buddhism by Robert A. F. Thurman. Copyright © 1995 by Robert A. F. Thurman. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Name: Barry, Quan, author.

Title: When I’m gone, look for me in the East / Quan Barry.

Description: First Edition. New York : Pantheon Books, 2022

Identifiers: LCCN 2021028160 (print). LCCN 2021028161 (ebook). ISBN 9781524748111 (hardcover). ISBN 9781524748128 (ebook).

Classification: LCC PS3602.A838 W48 2022 (print) | LCC PS3602.A838 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at lccn.loc.gov/​2021028160

LC ebook record available at lccn.loc.gov/​2021028161

Ebook ISBN 9781524748128

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