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Authors: Andrea Portes
I am extremely grateful to the following people for helping me along the way and helping me with this book, in particular. My editor, Kristen Pettit, of course. Katie Shea Boutillier. Fred Ramey. Dan Smetanka. Rosemary Stimola. Elizabeth Lynch, and everyone over at Harper. I would like to thank my mother, as well as the rest of my family, for the incredible support and love every step along the way. I'd like to thank my best friend, Brad, for having helped me all through the years. With all of my heart I'd like to thank my husband, who is gleefully supportive and understanding of every step of the process, and of me. I tend to
be a slightly strange person to actually be around, and my husband not only understands me but embraces my generally bizarre behavior. And last, but not least, my little baby boy Wyatt, who is growing now into a little boy, and who is so effervescent, curious, hilarious, and sweet that every day is a new adventure, not only out into the world but into my own heart. How infinite the heart is! For you, Wyatt, my little prince.
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ANDREA PORTES
is the bestselling novelist of two critically lauded adult novels,
Hick,
her debut, which was made into a feature film starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Alec Baldwin, Blake Lively, Eddie Redmayne, and Juliette Lewis, and
Bury This
. Her first novel for young adult readers,
Anatomy of a Misfit,
was called “perfection in book form” by
Teen Vogue.
Andrea grew up shuffled around between such disparate locales as Nebraska, BrasÃlia, Texas, Rio de Janeiro, Baltimore, North Dakota, California, Wisconsin, and North Carolina. Finally Andrea was granted relief from this nomadic existence when she was accepted to Bryn Mawr College. She attended on a full scholarship and later graduated cum laude, with a major in English literature. She then earned her Masters in Fine Arts degree from UC San Diego.
After her relentless education, Andrea moved to the neighborhood of Echo Park in Los Angeles, where she spent years mostly getting into trouble. It was in this period of vague nothingness that Andrea penned her debut novel, in longhand in three notebooks. Currently, she lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Sandy Tolan, their son, Wyatt, and their dog, Rascal.
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COVER ART OF BLUE-AND-ORANGE BUTTERFLY © 2016 BY GETTY IMAGES/DAVID ARKY
YELLOW BUTTERFLY © 2016 BY GETTY IMAGES/BEN ANDERSON
PINK BUTTERFLY © 2016 BY GETTY IMAGES/AMANDA ROHDE
HAND LETTERING BY JESSIE SAYWARD BRIGHT
COVER DESIGN BY SARAH NICHOLE KAUFMAN
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THE FALL OF BUTTERFLIES.
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2015951379
ISBN 978-0-06-231367-6 (trade bdg.)
ISBN 978-0-06-249780-2 (int. ed.)
EPub Edition © April 2016 ISBN 9780062313690
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