Cures for Heartbreak (19 page)
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Authors: Margo Rabb
“How to Survive a Funeral” was published in significantly different form under the title “Black Humor” in
Seventeen
, August 2000; a revised section of the story also appeared under the title “Ghost Story” in
One Story
, Issue 24, 2003.
“World History” was published in different form in the anthology
American Fiction: The Best Unpublished Stories by Emerging Writers
, 9th Edition, Minneapolis: New Rivers Press, 1997.
“Hospital Food” appeared in significantly different form under the title “Rearranging My Heart” in
Seventeen
, May 1997.
“My Mother's First Love” was published in different form under the title “My Mother's First Lover” in
The Atlantic Monthly
, November 1998, and reprinted in
Best New American Voices
, 2000.
“How to Find Love” was published in different form in
Glimmer Train Stories
, Winter 2000, and reprinted in
Mother Knows: 24 Tales of Motherhood
, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
Fictional “How to Find Love” excerpt adapted from a passage in
Having It All
, copyright © 1982 by Helen Gurley Brown.
“Seduce Me” was published in different form under the title “Fortune” in
Shenandoah
, Summer 2002, and published in significantly different form in
Seventeen
, December 2001.
CURES FOR HEARTBREAK.
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2015958400
ISBN 978-0-06-247156-7
EPub Edition © May 2016 ISBN 9780062471574
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Originally published by Delacorte Press, 2007
FIRST HARPER PAPERBACK EDITION, 2016
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