The Art of Adapting (48 page)

© ROBIN KEMPSTER

CASSANDRA DUNN
received her MFA in creative writing from Mills College. She was a semifinalist for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and a finalist in
Glimmer Train's
Short Story Award for New Writers. She has two children and lives in the San Francisco Bay area.

www.cassandradunn.com

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Copyright © 2014 by Cassandra Dunn

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Interior design by Aline C. Pace

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dunn, Cassandra, 1971–

The art of adapting : a novel / by Cassandra Dunn.—First

Touchstone hardcover edition.

pages cm

“A Touchstone Book.”

1. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 2. Family life—Fiction. 3. Domestic fiction. I. Title.

PS3604.U5576A89 2014

813'.6—dc23

2013039950

ISBN 978-1-4767-6160-2

ISBN 978-1-4767-6161-9 (ebook)