About the Author
Photograph by Daniel Stone
Michele Young-Stone was a public school teacher for seven years before returning to college to pursue her life’s dream—writing a novel. She earned her MFA in fiction writing from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2005, the same year her son Christopher was born.
Her first novel, The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors, was published in 2010. Garnering great reviews, her debut was also selected as a Target Book Club pick in 2011. Above Us Only Sky is her second novel. She has a third novel under contract with Simon & Schuster and is happily at work on a fourth book.
Michele currently resides on the coast of North Carolina with her amazing son, supportive husband, obsessive-compulsive cocker spaniel, and humanlike bearded dragon. When Michele is not writing, she is crafting in some form and doing Zumba. You can learn more about Michele at www.micheleyoung-stone.com/.
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Copyright © 2015 by Michele Young-Stone
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition March 2015
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Young-Stone, Michele.
Above us only sky / Michele Young-Stone.
pages cm.
PS3625.0975A64 2015
813'.6—dc23
2014016006
ISBN 978-1-4516-5767-8
ISBN 978-1-4516-5769-2 (ebook)