VIKING
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Copyright © 2020 by Sue Monk Kidd, Inc.
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to Springer Nature for permission to reprint material from Taussig, H., Calaway, J., Kotrosits, M., Lillie, C., Lasser, J., The Thunder: Perfect Mind. A New Translation and Introduction, published in 2010 by Palgrave Macmillan US, reproduced with permission of SNCSC.
Map illustration by Laura Hartman Maestro
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Names: Kidd, Sue Monk, author.
Title: The book of longings / Sue Monk Kidd.
Description: New York : Viking, [2020]
Identifiers: LCCN 2019049624 (print) | LCCN 2019049625 (ebook) | ISBN 9780525429760 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781984881380 (international edition) | ISBN 9780698408197 (ebook)
Subjects: GSAFD: Biographical fiction. | Historical fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3611.I44 B66 2020 (print) | LCC PS3611.I44 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019049624
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019049625
This is a work of fiction. Apart from the historical figures, any resemblance between fictional characters created by the author and actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Cover design: Sara Wood
Cover images: (papyrus) Shutterstock; (background) R. Tsubin / Getty Images
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