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About the Author

Myla Goldberg is the bestselling author of The False Friend, Wickett’s Remedy, and Bee Season, which was a New York Times Notable Book, a winner of the Borders New Voices Prize, a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, and was adapted to film and widely translated.

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The False Friend: A Novel

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Copyright

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2019 by Myla Goldberg

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First Scribner hardcover edition April 2019

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.

ISBN 978-1-5011-9784-0

ISBN 978-1-5011-9786-4 (ebook)