The Sinners and the Sea

by Rebecca Kanner

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  REBECCA KANNER holds a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from Washington University in St. Louis. Her writing has won an Associated Writing Programs Award and a Loft mentorship award. Her stories have been published in numerous journals, including The Kenyon Review and The Cincinnati Review. Her personal essay “Safety” is listed as a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2011. She is a freelance writer and teaches writing at The Loft in Minneapolis.

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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright © 2013 by Rebecca Kanner

  All scripture quotations taken from The Torah: The Five Books of Moses. A new translation of The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic text. Copyright © 1962 by The Jewish Publication Society of America, Philadelphia. Used by permission.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Kanner, Rebecca.

  Sinners and the sea / by Rebecca Kanner.

  p. cm.

  ISBN 978-1-4516-9523-6

  1. Noah (Biblical figure)—Fiction. 2. Noah’s ark—Fiction. 3. Deluge—Fiction. I. Title.

  PS3611.A5495S56 2013

  813’.6—dc23

  2012026293

  ISBN 978-1-4516-9523-6

  ISBN 978-1-4516-9524-3 (ebook)