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Cover artwork: cubehero, “The Dissolving City,” 2014, digital artwork, 1920 x 1080. http://cubehero.deviantart.com

Cover design: Val Fullard

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All That Is Solid Melts Into Air is a work of fiction. All the characters and situations portrayed in this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead — with the exception of historical personages — is purely coincidental. Names and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination and historical events are used fictitiously.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Giangrande, Carole, 1945–, author

All that is solid melts into air / Carole Giangrande.

(Inanna poetry & fiction series)

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-77133-361-0 (paperback). — ISBN 978-1-77133-362-7 (epub). —ISBN 978-1-77133-363-4 (kindle) —ISBN 978-1-77133-364-1 (pdf)

I. Title. II. Series: Inanna poetry and fiction series

PS8563.I24A45 2017 C813’.54 C2017-900284-8

C2017-900285-6

Printed and bound in Canada

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