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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2005 by Shalom Auslander
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Title and half title art © Shepard Fairey and Studio Number One

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Auslander, Shalom.
Beware of God: stories/Shalom Auslander.
p. cm.
1. Jews—Fiction. 2. Jewish fiction. I. Title.
PS3601 .U85 B49 2005
813′.6—dc22  2004051352

ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-9140-5
ISBN-10: 1-4165-9140-0

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