Love and Other Impossible Pursuits (33 page)

FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION

Copyright 2006 by Ayelet Waldman

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Great Britain by Polygon, an imprint of Birlinn Ltd., Edinburgh, in 2005.

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Waldman, Ayelet.
                  Love and other impossible pursuits / Ayelet Waldman.—1st ed.
                                                      p. cm.
                  1. Married women—Fiction.                  2. Infants—Death—Fiction.                  3. Stepfamilies—Fiction.                  4. Grief—Fiction.                  I. Title.

                  PS3573.A42124L69                  2006
                  813´.54—dc22

2004063546

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