Copyright © 2021 by Rabih Alameddine
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Sections of “How to Greet Your Brother” appeared in slightly altered form in the New Yorker online; “Over the Rainbow” and “How to Make Liberace Jealous” first appeared in an essay, “Hope and Home,” in Freeman’s; “All Hail the Mighty Harold” first appeared, in slightly altered form, in the book Bound to Last: 30 Writers on Their Most Cherished Book.
Published simultaneously in Canada
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First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition: September 2021
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ISBN 978-0-8021-5780-5
eISBN 978-0-8021-5782-9
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