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“a dream of foxes” from How to Carry Water: Selected Poems by Lucille Clifton, copyright © 1996 by Lucille Clifton. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, LLC on behalf of BOA Editions Ltd., boaeditions.org.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Mao, Sally Wen, author.
Title: Ninetails : nine tales / Sally Wen Mao.
Description: [New York] : Penguin Books, 2024.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023051495 (print) | LCCN 2023051496 (ebook) | ISBN 9780143137894 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9780593511985 (ebook)
Subjects: LCGFT: Mythological fiction. | Short stories.
Classification: LCC PS3613.A623 N56 2024 (print) | LCC PS3613.A623 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23/eng/20231128
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023051495
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023051496
Ebook ISBN 9780593511985
Cover design: Elizabeth Yaffe
Cover illustration: Whooli Chen
Designed by Sabrina Bowers, adapted for ebook by Estelle Malmed
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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