by Idra Novey
And if she didn’t? If she kept going?
Already, the bathers on the beach had begun to look around, to wonder who would be the first to get up and approach her, and with what question. As for those who remained under their umbrellas, might this stranger come to haunt them anyway? Might they wake in the night and discover foam around their ankles, to find that they were entering the ocean with this unknown woman in their sleep?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
IDRA NOVEY is the author of Exit, Civilian, selected for the 2011 National Poetry Series. Her most recent translation is Clarice Lispector’s novel The Passion According to G.H. Born in western Pennsylvania, she has lived in Chile, Brazil, and New York. This is her first novel.
ALSO BY IDRA NOVEY
Poetry
Exit, Civilian
The Next Country
Translations
The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector
On Elegance While Sleeping by Viscount Lascano Tegui
Birds for a Demolition by Manoel de Barros
The Clean Shirt of It by Paulo Henriques Britto
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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Epigraph
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
About the Author
Also by Idra Novey
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Copyright
Copyright
The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Copyright © 2016 by Idra Novey
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