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First Touchstone hardcover edition January 2018
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Santlofer, Jonathan, 1946– editor. | Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971– author of introduction.
Title: It occurs to me that I am America : new stories and art / edited by Jonathan Santlofer ; introduction by Viet Thanh Nguyen.
Description: First Touchstone hardcover edition. | New York : Touchstone, 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017055446 | ISBN 9781501179600 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Short stories, American. | American fiction—21st century. | BISAC: FICTION / Anthologies (multiple authors). | FICTION / Political. | LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General.
Classification: LCC PS648.S5 I83 2018 | DDC 813/.010806—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017055446
ISBN 978-1-5011-7960-0
ISBN 978-1-5011-7962-4 (ebook)