Copyright © 2017 Jocelyn Cullity

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We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada.

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Amah and the Silk-Winged Pigeons is a work of fiction. All the characters portrayed in this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

Note from the publisher: Care has been taken to trace the ownership of copyright material used in this book. The author and the publisher welcome any information enabling them to rectify any references or credits in subsequent editions.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Cullity, Jocelyn, author

Amah and the silk-winged pigeons / a novel by Jocelyn Cullity.

(Inanna poetry & fiction series)

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-77133-437-2 (softcover).-- ISBN 978-1-77133-438-9 (epub).--

ISBN 978-1-77133-439-6 (Kindle).-- ISBN 978-1-77133-440-2 (pdf)

I. Title. II. Series: Inanna poetry and fiction series

PS8605.U428A81 2017 C813’.6 C2017-905371-X

C2017-905372-8

Printed and bound in Canada

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