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Copyright © 2024 by Honor Levy
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The following stories were previously published, some in different form: “Do It Coward,” Civilization (2021); “Pillow Angels,” Heavy Traffic (2020); “Cancel Me” and “Internet Girl,” New York Tyrant (2020); and “Good Boys,” The New Yorker (2020).
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Levy, Honor, author.
Title: My first book / Honor Levy.
Description: New York: Penguin Press, 2024.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023041383 (print) | LCCN 2023041384 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593656532 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780593656549 (ebook)
Subjects: LCGFT: Short stories.
Classification: LCC PS3612.E93686 M9 2024 (print) | LCC PS3612.E93686 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23/eng/20231127
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023041383
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023041384
Ebook ISBN 9780593656549
Cover design: Alex Merto
Cover art: (cigarette and key) Hayley Jane Wakensaw
Designed by Alexis Farabaugh, adapted for ebook by Cora Wigen
This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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