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ОглавлениеReplacing
Dad
a novel by
Shelley Fraser Mickle
Published by
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Post Office Box 2225
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27515-2225
a division of
Workman Publishing Company, Inc.
708 Broadway
New York, New York 10003
Copyright 2013 Shelley Fraser Mickle,
All rights reserved.
Design by Susan A. Stirling
Published in eBook format by eBookIt.com
ISBN-13: 978-1-4566-1660-1
This is a work of fiction. While, as in all fiction, the literary perceptions and insights are based in part on experience, all names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author's imagination or, as in the case of some historical figures and events, are used fictitiously. No reference to the life of any real person, living or dead, is intended or should be inferred.
For myself.
—Linda Marsh
For anybody who'll never tell my mother.
—Drew Marsh
Say, my spirit,
How fares the king and's followers?
Confined together . . .
Just as you left them; all prisoners, sir,
In the lime-grove.
—Shakespeare, The Tempest
"When Mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy."
—a sign in a novelty store, 1991
Acknowledgments
I'd like to express my appreciation to Louis Rubin and Shannon Ravenel for their incomparable insights; my family for their support, especially Blake and Paul, who always keep my lingo up to date; Parker, who supports me in many ways without charging interest; Claudia Sabin and Eleanor Blair, who helped me see as a painter might see; Carol Offen and Virginia Holman for making it all smooth; Virginia Barber, my agent; and last but not least, the fictional spirits of Drew and Linda who gave me their stories with such insistence.
