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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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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Pekkanen, Sarah, author.
Title: The perfect neighbors : a novel / Sarah Pekkanen.
Description: First Washington Square Press trade paperback edition. | New York : Washington Square Press, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015046232 | ISBN 9781501106491 (softcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Interpersonal relations—Fiction. | Neighborhoods—Fiction. | Housewives—Fiction. | Domestic fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Contemporary Women. | FICTION / Family Life. | FICTION / Literary.
Classification: LCC PS3616.E358 P47 2016 | DDC 813/.6—dc23 LC record available at
http://lccn.loc.gov/2015046232

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ISBN 978-1-5011-0650-7 (ebook)