The History of Us (42 page)

First Touchstone hardcover edition January 2013

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Designed by Joy O’Meara

Map of Cincinnati by Alice Pixley Young

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Stewart, Leah, 1973—

The history of us / Leah Stewart.

p. cm.

“A Touchstone book.”

1. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 2. Aunts—Fiction. 3. Adult children—Family relationships—Fiction. 4. Domestic fiction. I. Title.

PS3569.T465258W47 2013

813’.54—dc23

2012003018

ISBN 978-1-4516-7262-6

ISBN 978-1-4516-7264-0 (ebook)