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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Tompkins, JoAnne, 1956 July 10− author.
Title: What comes after / JoAnne Tompkins.
Description: New York: Riverhead Books, 2021.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020016899 (print) | LCCN 2020016900 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593085998 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593086018 (ebook) | International edition ISBN: 9780593332559
Classification: LCC PS3620.O58133 W47 2021 (print) | LCC PS3620.O58133 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020016899
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020016900
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.
Cover design: Kaitlin Kall
Cover images: (trees) Richard Maschmeyer / Getty Images; (yellow house) Johner Images / Getty Images; (white house) Willing-Holtz / plainpicture
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