Text copyright © 2014 by Alaya Dawn Johnson

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Johnson, Alaya Dawn, 1982– author.

Love is the drug / by Alaya Dawn Johnson.

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Summary: Emily Bird is an African American high school senior in Washington D.C., member of a privileged medical family, on the verge of college and the edge of the drug culture, and not really sure which way she will go — then one day she wakes up in the hospital with no memory of what happened.

ISBN 978-0-545-41781-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. African American teenagers — Juvenile fiction. 2. African American families — Juvenile fiction. 3. Teenagers — Drug use — Juvenile fiction. 4. Elite (Social sciences) — Juvenile fiction. 5. Washington (D.C.) — Juvenile fiction. [1. African Americans — Fiction. 2. Drug abuse — Fiction. 3. Washington (D.C.) — Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.J6267Lo 2014

813.6 — dc23

2014003445

First edition, October 2014

Epigraph from On Drugs © 1995 by David Lenson, University of Minnesota Press. Used with permission.

Cover art & design © 2014 by Phil Falco

e-ISBN 978-0-545-66289-5

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