Valley Fever (34 page)

Authors: Katherine Taylor

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For four generations, all my father's family had done was make a living, farming. There were a few good years in there. One hundred acres was, for me, then, starting with the same land Dad had, working in the same soil my great-grandparents had somehow managed to pay for, far more exciting than twenty thousand acres could have been. I learned, slowly, how to live.

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Katherine Taylor
is the author of the novel
Rules for Saying Goodbye
(FSG, 2007). Her stories and essays have appeared in
The New York Times
,
Elle
,
Town & Country
,
ZYZZYVA
,
Southwest Review
, and
Ploughshares
, among other publications. She lives in Los Angeles. You can sign up for email updates
here
.

ALSO BY
KATHERINE TAYLOR

Rules for Saying Goodbye

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Contents

A Note About the Author

Also by Katherine Taylor

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

18 West 18th Street, New York 10011

First edition, 2015

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Taylor, Katherine, 1973â

Â Â Â Â Â Â Valley fever / Katherine Taylor.Â â First edition.

Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â pages; cm

Â Â Â Â Â Â ISBN 978-0-374-29914-9 (hardback)Â â ISBN 978-0-374-71381-2 (e-book)

Â Â Â Â Â Â I. Title.

Â Â Â PS3620.A947V35 2015

Â Â Â 813'.6âdc23

2014044645

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The author is especially grateful to Dewey Belli and June Donny for their help in research, and to the Parents Taylor for their unrelenting support.