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 © 2010 by Susan Straight
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Straight, Susan.
Take one candle light a room / Susan Straight.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-37953-5
1. Identity (Psychology)—Fiction. 2. Travel writers—Fiction. 3. Family secrets—Fiction. 4. Blacks—Race identity—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3569.T6795T35 2010 813′.54—DC22 2010012683
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