They May Not Mean To, but They Do: A Novel (32 page)

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Authors: Cathleen Schine

Tags: #Fiction, #Literary, #Contemporary Women, #Family Life

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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Epigraph

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

Chapter 48

Chapter 49

Chapter 50

Chapter 51

Chapter 52

Chapter 53

Chapter 54

Chapter 55

Chapter 56

Chapter 57

Chapter 58

Chapter 59

Acknowledgments

Also by Cathleen Schine

A Note About the Author

Copyright

 

Sarah Crichton Books

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

18 West 18th Street, New York 10011

Copyright © 2016 by Cathleen Schine

All rights reserved

First edition, 2016

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint an extract taken from “This Be The Verse” from
The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin
by Philip Larkin, edited by Archie Burnett. Copyright © 2012 by The Estate of Philip Larkin. Reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Schine, Cathleen, author.

Title: They may not mean to, but they do: a novel / Cathleen Schine.

Description: First edition. | New York: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015036418 | ISBN 9780374280130 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780374712204 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Families—Fiction. | Domestic fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Literary. | FICTION / Contemporary Women. | FICTION / Family Life.

Classification: LCC PS3569.C497 T46 2016 | DDC 813/.54—dc23

LC record available at
http://lccn.loc.gov/2015036418

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