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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by 4th Estate in 2016

      First published in the United States in 2016 by

      Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic

      Copyright © 2016 by Joanna Connors

      Cover photo © Mark Owen / Trevillion Images

      Joanna Connors asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      Epigraph quote by James Baldwin from “As Much Truth As One Can Bear,” The New York Times (January 14, 1962). Quote on p. 76 from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, translated by Rolfe Humphries (Indiana University Press, 1955), 146–48. Quote on p. 115 by James Baldwin from “Lorraine Hansberry at the Summit,” Freedomways 19:4 (1979) 269–72.

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      Source ISBN: 9780007521869

      Ebook Edition © April 2016 ISBN: 9780007521876

      Version: 2017-02-20