Blue Stars (49 page)
Authors: Emily Gray Tedrowe
Emily Gray Tedrowe
is the author of
Commuters,
which was named a Best New Paperback by
Entertainment Weekly,
an
IndieNext
Notable pick, and a Target Breakout Book. Her short fiction has been published in the
Chicago Tribune
’s
Printers Row Journal, Fifty-Two Stories,
and
Other Voices. Blue Stars
was conceived during her brother’s Marine Corps service in the Iraq War. Originally from New York City, Emily now lives in Chicago with her husband and daughters. Sign up for email updates
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EMILY GRAY TEDROWE
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CONTENTS
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.
BLUE STARS.
Copyright © 2015 by Emily Gray Tedrowe. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reproduce lines from the following:
“To an Army Wife, in Sardis” from
Sappho
, by Sappho, translated by Mary Barnard, © 1958 by the Regents of the University of California, © renewed 1986 by Mary Barnard. Published by the University of California Press.
Cover design by Lisa Marie Pompilio
Cover photographs: houses © Gallery Stock; window frame © Victor Habbick/Trevillion Images
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The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.
ISBN 978-1-250-05248-3 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4668-5458-1 (e-book)
e-ISBN 9781466854581
First Edition: February 2015