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Authors: Boris Fishman
The original debt is to family: Anna Oder, Yakov Fishman, Arkady Oder, and in memory of Sofia Oder and Faina Fishman.
The contemporary debt is to friends and colleagues:
Alana Newhouse: I am so lucky to have your friendship.
Henry Dunow, Terry Karten, Elena Lappin: You are my golden triumvirate. Jane Beirn: You're a miracle worker, and it's been an honor to work with you. Special thanks also to Nikki Smith, Jillian Verrillo, and Stephanie Cooper: You're so good at what you do.
The readers: Ben Holmes, Amy Bonnaffons, Ellen Sussman, Jules Lewis, Susan Jane Gilman. You carried me down the last leg.
Margot Knight and the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, where this novel was begun, and Wayne Hoffman, Mark Sullivan, and the Horizontal Pines Artists + Writers Haven, where it was finished.
Those who took time to share their stories and educate me: David Politzer, Sari Siegel, Laura Summerhill, Mary Cherry, Laurence Sugarman, Kiro Ivanovski, Scott Summers, Susan Wise Bauer.
The Jewish Book Council, and especially Carolyn Hessel, which does so much for literature.
The evangelists, in no order: Joe Flaherty and everyone at Writers & Books, Bonnie Sumner, Miwa Messer, David and Sally Johnston, Bruce and Julie Blackwell, John King, Vanessa Blakeslee, Yossi Gremilion, Ida and Peter Sorensen, John and Joanne Gordon, Meredith Maran, Dan Speth and Cathy Clemens, Darlene Orlov, Juliette Ponce, Ellen Kaye and Seth Goldman, Carolyn Carr Hutton, Ella Shteingart, Stewart and Susan Kampel, and the many others who've gone out of their way to spread word. I wouldn't be nearly as far without you.
BORIS FISHMAN
was born in Belarus and has lived in the United States since the age of nine. He is the author of the novel
A Replacement Life
, which was chosen as a
New York Times
Notable Book of the Year and a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, and won the Sophie Brody Medal from the American Library Association and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. His writing has appeared in the
New Yorker
, the
New York Times Magazine
, the
Wall Street Journal
, the
London Review of Books
, the
New Republic
, and other publications. He lives in New York City.
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COVER DESIGN BY MILAN BOZIC
DON'T LET MY BABY DO RODEO
. Copyright © 2016 by Boris Fishman. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to Ludmila Chorekchian for permission to refer to and quote from
The Revelation of a Russian Psychotherapist on the American Land
, Vantage Press, 2002, in
chapter 6
of this novel.
FIRST EDITION
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.
ISBN: 978-0-06-238436-2
EPub Edition March 2016 ISBN 9780062384386
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