Where No Gods Came

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Where No Gods Came Where No Gods Came Sheila O’Connor M university of michigan press Ann Arbor Copyright © by Sheila O’Connor 2003 All rights reserved Published in the United States of America by The University of Michigan Press Manufactured in the United States of America c Printed on acid-free paper 2006 2005 2004 2003 4 3 2 1 No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher. A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data O’Connor, Sheila. Where no gods came / Sheila O’Connor. p. cm. — (Michigan literary fiction awards) ISBN 0-472-11365-8 (cloth : alk. paper) I. Title. II. Series. PS3565.C645 W47 2003 813'.54—dc21 2003008360 This novel is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, to real people, living or dead, or to real locales are intended only to give the fiction a sense of reality and authenticity. Other names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and their resemblance, if any, to real-life counterparts is entirely coincidental. ISBN13 978-0-472-11365-1 (cloth) ISBN13 978-0-472-03051-4 (paper) ISBN13 978-0-472-02571-8 (electronic) For Mikaela, Dylan, and Tim, who dreamed the dream with me ...