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

Copyright © 2023 by Allison Epstein

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and distributed in Canada by Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.

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Cover illustration by Roberts Rurans

Cover design by Emily Mahon

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Epstein, Allison, author.

Title: Let the dead bury the dead : a novel / by Allison Epstein.

Description: First edition. | New York : Doubleday, [2023]

Identifiers: lccn 2022037356 (print) | lccn 2022037357 (ebook) | isbn 9780385549097 (hardcover) | isbn 9780385549103 (ebook)

Classification: lcc ps3605.p6456 l48 2023 (print) | lcc ps3605.p6456 (ebook) | ddc 813/.6--dc23

lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022037356

lc ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022037357

Ebook ISBN 9780385549103

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