FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, MAY 2000
Copyright © 1999 by E. Lynn Harris
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 1999.
Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Doubleday edition as follows: Harris, E. Lynn.
Abide with me: a novel / by E. Lynn Harris. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Sequel to: Just as I am.
1. Afro-Americans— Fiction. I. Title.
PS3558.A64438 A35 1999
813′.54—dc21 98-48974
eISBN: 978-0-307-83176-7
Author photograph © Matthew Jordan Smith
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