by Iris Smyles
Copyright © 2013 Iris Smyles
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Smyles, Iris.
Iris has free time : a novel / Iris Smyles.
pages cm
eISBN : 978-1-593-76558-3
1. Smyles, Iris--Fiction. 2. Young women--New York (State)--New York--Fiction. 3. Self-realization in women--Fiction. 4. Bildungsromans. 5. Autobiographical fiction. I. Title.
PS3619.M95I75 2013
813’.6--dc23
2013000711
A different version of “Autumn in New York” appeared previously in Splice Today.
A different version of “Iris’s Movie Corner” appeared previously in Nerve.
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