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Copyright

The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

Copyright © 2019 by Attica Locke
Cover design by Gregg Kulick 
Cover photograph © John Post / Panoramic Images 
Author photograph by Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times 
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ISBN 978-0-316-36331-0

E3-20200724-NF-DA-REV

Dedication

For Nigton

Epigraph

Like a tree planted by the water,
I shall not be moved.

—when Jessie Mae Hemphill sang it

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