by Julia Fierro
To my children, Luca and Cecilia, thank you. Before you, the only true love I knew was that which I experienced in books. Loving you has made me twice the writer. I missed you all those hours I spent writing this book.
Justin, my best friend and partner of sixteen years, thank you for saving me. Again and again.
To all of Cutting Teeth’s readers, thank you. You’ve made my dream come true. You complete this book.
About the Author
JULIA FIERRO is the founder of the Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop, which has been a creative home to more than two thousand writers since 2002. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow, she’s written for Guernica, The Millions, Flavorwire, and other publications, and has been profiled in The L Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, The Observer, and The Economist. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their two children.
Visit the author’s Web site at www.juliafierro.com and find her on Twitter at @juliafierro.
For more about Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop, visit www.sackettworkshop.com.
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
CUTTING TEETH. Copyright © 2014 by Julia Fierro. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Cover design and photograph by Steve Snider
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Fierro, Julia.
Cutting teeth: a novel / Julia Fierro.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-250-04202-6 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4668-3922-9 (e-book)
I. Title.
PS3606.I368C88 2014
813'.6—dc23
2014008040
e-ISBN 9781466839229
First Edition: May 2014
