Stranger, Father, Beloved (26 page)

TAYLOR LARSEN is a graduate of Columbia University's MFA program in fiction writing. Taylor taught fiction writing at Columbia University as part of the Columbia Artist/Teachers faculty and at The Sackett Street Writers' Workshop, as well as literature courses for Pace University.
Stranger, Father, Beloved
is her first novel. Originally from Alexandria, Virginia, she currently resides with her husband in Brooklyn, New York.

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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First Gallery Books hardcover edition July 2016

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Larsen, Taylor, author.

Title: Stranger, father, beloved / Taylor Larsen.

Description: First Gallery Books hardcover edition. | New York : Gallery Books, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015040917 (print) | LCCN 2015050809 (ebook) | ISBN

Subjects: LCSH: Middle-aged men—Fiction. | Families—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Family Life. | FICTION / Coming of Age.

Classification: LCC PS3612.A7733 S77 2016 (print) | LCC PS3612.A7733 (ebook)

| DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at
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ISBN 978-1-5011-2475-4

ISBN 978-1-5011-2476-1 (ebook)