The Gilded Years (46 page)

ALSO BY KARIN TANABE

The List

The Price of Inheritance

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2016 by Karin Tanabe

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Tanabe, Karin, author.

Title: The gilded years: a novel / Karin Tanabe.

Description: First Washington Square Press trade paperback edition. | New York : Washington Square Press, 2016.

Classification: LCC PS3620.A6837 G55 2016 | DDC 813/.6—dc23 LC record available at
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ISBN 978-1-5011-1045-0

ISBN 978-1-5011-1046-7 (ebook)