The Last September: A Novel (27 page)

NINA DE GRAMONT
is the author of the story collection
Of Cats and Men,
which was a Book Sense selection and the winner of a Discovery Award from the New England Booksellers Association. Her first novel,
Gossip of the Starlings,
was also a Book Sense pick. She is coeditor of
Choice,
an anthology, and the author of several young adult novels. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of North Carolina–Wilmington. Visit her online at
ninadegramont.com
. (Author photo by Harry Taylor.)

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Published by

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Post Office Box 2225

Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27515-2225

a division of

Workman Publishing

225 Varick Street

New York, New York 10014

© 2015 by Nina de Gramont.

All rights reserved.

This is a work of fiction. While, as in all fiction, the literary perceptions and insights are based on experience, all names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

eISBN 978-1-61620-537-9