Love Stories in This Town (14 page)

AMANDA EYRE WARD
is a graduate of Williams College and the University of Montana. She is the author of the novels
Sleep Toward Heaven, How to Be Lost
, and
Forgive Me
. Amanda's short fiction has been published in
Tin House, Zoetrope, Story Quarterly
, and the
New Delta Review
. Amanda lives with her family in Austin, Texas.

ABOUT THE TYPE

This book was set in Granjon, a modern recutting of a typeface produced under the direction of George W. Jones, who based Granjon's design upon the letterforms of Claude Garamond (1480—1561). The name was given to the typeface as a tribute to the typographic designer Robert Granjon.

Love Stories in This Town
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and
incidents are the products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.
Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead,
is entirely coincidental.

A Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Original

Copyright © 2009 by Amanda Eyre Ward Reading group guide copyright © 2009 by Random House, Inc.

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Stories from this collection have appeared, in slightly different form,
in the following publications:

“Should I Be Scared?” in
Pindeldyboz;
“Butte as in Beautiful” in the
New Delta
Review;
“The Stars Are Bright in Texas” in
Zoetrope: All Story;
“
Shakespeare.com
” in
StoryQuarterly;
“The Way the Sky Changed” in
Tin House
and
The Best of Tin House;
“Miss Montana's Wedding Day” in the
Austin Chronicle;
and “Motherhood and
Terrorism” in
Politically Inspired
.

eISBN: 978-0-345-51491-2

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