The Boy (13 page)
Authors: Lara Santoro
Tags: #Fiction, #Literary, #Contemporary Women, #Family Life
My deepest thanks go to my editor, Asya Muchnick, and my agent, Elaine Markson. Thanks also to Alice Sebold, Allegra Huston, Kate Christensen, and Julian Rubinstein. Eternal gratitude to Jen Hart and Andrea Meyer at the Love Apple for employing the unemployable.
Lara Santoro spent most of her career as a foreign news correspondent, based primarily in Rome and in Nairobi working for
Newsweek
and the
Christian Science Monitor
. She was born in Rome and currently lives in New Mexico. She is the author of one previous novel,
Mercy
.
Mercy
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Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Lara Santoro
Newsletters
Copyright
The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Copyright © 2013 by Lara Santoro
Cover design by Allison J. Warner. Cover photograph by Herman Nicholson/Millennium Images, UK; line art by Alex Stsiazhyn.
Cover copyright © 2013 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.
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ISBN: 978-0-316-20625-9