The Silences of Home (52 page)

Caitlin Sweet’s first fantasy novel,
A Telling of Stars
, was published by Penguin Canada in 2003. Her second,
The Silences of Home
, was published in 2005. Between them, they were nominated for Aurora Awards, a Locus Best First Novel Award, long-listed for the Sunburst Award, and ranked in the top five of SFSite’s Best Novels of 2005.
The Pattern Scars
was published by ChiZine Publications in 2011, and was nominated for an Aurora, a Sunburst, and a CBC Bookie (which it ended up winning).

Caitlin’s first YA book,
The Door in the Mountain
, was a reimagining of the ancient Greek Minotaur myth. It came out in 2014; its sequel (as-yet unnamed) will be published in the fall of 2015, also by ChiZine, under its ChiTeen imprint.

When not working on her own books (which, sadly, is most of the time), Caitlin is a writer/research analyst with the Ontario Government, and a genre-writing workshop instructor at U of T’s School of Continuing Studies. She lives in Toronto with her family, which includes a husband, two teenagers, four cats, a rabbit, a hamster, and a bunch of fish.

Visit Caitlin at: www.caitlinsweet.com

The Silences of Home
© 2005, 2015 by Caitlin Sweet
Cover artwork © 2015 by Melanie Luther
Cover design © 2015 by Vince Haig

All rights reserved.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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The Silences of Home
First published by Penguin Canada
The Penguin Group
Penguin Books, a division of Pearson Canada
2005

eISBN: 978-1-77148-321-6

ChiZine Publications
a CZP eBook
Toronto, Canada
www.chizinepub.com

Prepared for publication by Steph Da Ponte
Copyedited and proofread by Michael Matheson

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $20.1 million in writing and publishing throughout Canada.

Published with the generous assistance of the Ontario Arts Council.