Copyright © 2011 by John Burnham Schwartz
Reading group guide copyright © 2012 by Random House, Inc.

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

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Schwartz, John Burnham.
Northwest corner : a novel / John Burnham Schwartz.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-679-60511-9
I. Title.
PS3569.C5658N67 2011
813′.54—dc              2010045784

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