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It is only in hindsight that I have come to realize the truth of it—come to see all my failures over the years made fresh in the memories of the house, laid out in a tapestry of disappointment, each attempt at atonement thwarted by the boy who has been to the other side of death and come back as something else—and I know, somewhere deep in my heart, that it wasn’t Donovan, after all, who made him what he is.
ALSO AVAILABLE BY JO KAPLAN
(writing as Joanna Parypinski)
Dark Carnival
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Jo Kaplan writes and teaches in the Los Angeles area with much encouragement from her husband and two cats. Her fiction (as Joanna Parypinski) has appeared in Black Static, Nightmare Magazine, Haunted Nights edited by Ellen Datlow and Lisa Morton, New Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark edited by Jonathan Maberry, Vastarien, the Nightscript series, and publishers such as Independent Legions. She teaches English and creative writing at Glendale Community College, where she also plays cello in the GCC orchestra.
This is a work of fiction. All of the names, characters, organizations, places and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to real or actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2020 by Joanna Parypinski
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Crooked Lane Books, an imprint of The Quick Brown Fox & Company LLC.
Crooked Lane Books and its logo are trademarks of The Quick Brown Fox & Company LLC.
Library of Congress Catalog-in-Publication data available upon request.
ISBN (hardcover): 978-1-64385-449-6
ISBN (ebook): 978-1-64385-450-2
Cover design by Melanie Sun
Printed in the United States.
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First Edition: August 2020
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