Thanks eternally to Rachael, Ashley, Kristian, Noemi, and Vee for making sure that Like Water is respectful to all its readers.
And from the bottom of my heart, thank you to LGBTQIA+ readers everywhere; you matter, and you are loved.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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REBECCA PODOS is the author of The Mystery of Hollow Places. She is a graduate of the writing, literature, and publishing program at Emerson College, and her fiction has been published in Glimmer Train, Glyph, Paper Darts, Bellows American Review, and SmokeLong Quarterly. She lives with her husband in Connecticut. You can find her online at www.rebeccapodos.com.
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BOOKS BY REBECCA PODOS
The Mystery of Hollow Places
Like Water
CREDITS
COVER ART by Xaviera López
COVER DESIGN by Sarah Nichole Kaufman
COPYRIGHT
Balzer + Bray is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.
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Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, www.graywolfpress.org.
LIKE WATER. Copyright © 2017 by Rebecca Podos. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Podos, Rebecca, author.
Title: Like water / Rebecca Podos.
Description: First Edition. | New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017] | Summary: When her father is diagnosed with Huntington’s disease, eighteen-year-old Vanni abandons her plan to flee her small New Mexico hometown after high school graduation and instead spends the summer keeping herself busy with part-time jobs and boys, but that changes after she meets Leigh, whose friendship dares Vanni to ask herself big questions and make new plans.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016053584 | ISBN 9780062373373 (hardcover)
EPub Edition © September 2017 ISBN 9780062373397
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.P63 Li 2017 | DDC [Fic]—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016053584
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