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Kimberly Elkins’s fiction and nonfiction have been published in the
Atlantic
,
Best New American Voices
,
The
Iowa Review
, the
Village Voice
, the 
Chicago Tribune
,
Maisonneuve
,
Glamour
, and
Slice,
among others. She was a finalist for the 2004 National Magazine Award in fiction, and this is her first novel. Kimberly lives in New York City. Visit her website at www.kimberlyelkins.com.

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This book is a work of historical fiction. In order to give a sense of the times, some names of real people or places have been included in the book. Some of the events depicted in this book are imaginary, and the names of nonhistorical persons or events are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance of such nonhistorical persons or events to actual ones is purely coincidental.

Copyright © 2014 by Kimberly Elkins
Cover design by TK
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“What Is Visible” first appeared in
The Atlantic
, March 2003, in a different version, and then in
Best New American Voices 2004
, and the 2005 McGraw-Hill college textbook
Arguing Through Literature
.

The prologue first appeared in a different version as “Laura Bridgman, Age Fifty-Nine, the First Deaf-Blind Person to Learn Language, Meets Helen Keller, Age Seven” in
The Drum
.

Chapter 17 first appeared in a different version as “The Letter” in “Printer’s Row,” the literary supplement to the
Chicago Tribune,
October 7, 2012.

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