Copyright © 2011 by Robyn Michele Levy
First U.S. edition 2012

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ISBN 978-1-55365-632-6 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-1-55365-633-3 (ebook)

Editing by Nancy Flight
Copyediting by Lara Kordic
Cover design by Naomi MacDougall
Cover photograph by Angela Wyant/Getty Images
Illustration on ♣ by Robyn Levy
Lyrics on ♣ are by Leonard Cohen, “So Long, Marianne,”
Songs of Leonard Cohen, Columbia, 1967.
Lyrics on ♣ are by Feist, “1234,” The Reminder, Cherrytree, 2007.
Lyrics on ♣ are by Marvin Gaye, “I Heard It through the Grapevine,”
In the Groove, Tamla, 1968.
Distributed in the U.S. by Publishers Group West

We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, the Province of British Columbia through the Book Publishing Tax Credit, and the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for our publishing activities.