Afterworlds (63 page)
Authors: Scott Westerfeld
SIMON PULSE
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First Simon Pulse hardcover edition September 2014
Text copyright © 2014 by Scott Westerfeld
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Westerfeld, Scott.
Afterworlds / by Scott Westerfeld. — First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
p. cm.
Summary: In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the
New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy’s novel, slips into the “Afterworld” to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide, as both face many challenges and both fall in love.
[1. Authorship—Fiction. 2. Future life—Fiction. 3. Dead—Fiction. 4. Ghosts—Fiction. 5. Love—Fiction. 6. East Indian Americans—Fiction. 7. Lesbians—Fiction. 8. New York (N.Y.)—Fiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.W5197Aft 2014
[Fic]—dc23
2014006852
ISBN 978-1-4814-2234-5 (hc)
ISBN 978-1-4814-2236-9 (eBook)
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