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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.

The publisher nor the author assumes any responsibility for errors or for changes that occur after publication. Further, the publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content.

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