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vii Acknowledgments I owe a debt of gratitude to those who gave so selflessly of their time to read early versions of this novel and offer invaluable guidance: K. Gorcheva-Newberry, Donald Seacreast, Lisa Faith Phillips, and Gerri Glass. This work could never have been completed without the tireless efforts of Rosemary Fithian-Guruswamy, who scheduled my teaching life to allow time for my writing life as well. And my sincere thanks to the editors at West Virginia University Press, who reached down the throat of one book and helped me pull out a better one. ...

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