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Copyright © 2017 by Francesca Segal

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Excerpt from “Poem for a Daughter” from Poems 1955–2005 by Anne Stevenson (Bloodaxe Books, 2005).

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Segal, Francesca, 1980-author.

Title: The awkward age : a novel / Francesca Segal.

Description: New York : Riverhead Books, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016048993| ISBN 9780399576454 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780399576478 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Domestic fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Family Life. | FICTION / Coming of Age. | FICTION / Literary. | GSAFD: Bildungsromans.

Classification: LCC PS3619.E374 A97 2017 | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016048993

p. cm.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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