© 2011 by Erin Healy

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Poem “Veil” © 2007 by Todd Davis. Reprinted with the permission of Michigan State University Press, from The Least of These by Todd Davis © 2010.

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Publisher’s Note: This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. All characters are fictional, and any similarity to people living or dead is purely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Healy, Erin M.

   The baker’s wife / Erin Healy.

      p. cm.

   ISBN 978-1-59554-752-1 (trade paper)

   I. Title.

   PS3608.E245B35 2011

   813’.54--dc22

2011021273

Printed in the United States of America

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