A Sudden Light: A Novel (50 page)

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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.

Copyright © 2014 by Garth Stein

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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition October 2014

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Stein, Garth.

 A sudden light : a novel / Garth Stein.

  pages cm

1. Family secrets—Fiction. 2. Domestic fiction. 3. Ghost stories. I. Title.

 PS3569.T3655S83 2014

 813’.54—dc23

            2014006886

ISBN 978-1-4391-8703-6

ISBN 978-1-4391-8705-0 (ebook)