The Orchardist (57 page)
Special thanks to Charles Baxter, Salvatore Scibona, Bill Clegg, and Terry Karten.
Also: the Omi International Writers’ Residency Program at Ledig House, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Minnesota State Arts Board, the University of Minnesota’s Program in Creative Writing, the English and creative writing departments at the University of Oregon, and
Third Coast
magazine.
A
MANDA
C
OPLIN
was born in Wenatchee, Washington. She received her BA from the University of Oregon and MFA from the University of Minnesota. A recipient of residencies from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and the Omi International Arts Center at Ledig House in Ghent, New York, she lives in Portland, Oregon.
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This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE ORCHARDIST
. Copyright © 2012 by Amanda Coplin. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
FIRST EDITION
Epub Edition © SEPTEMBER 2012 ISBN: 9780062188526
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Coplin, Amanda.
The orchardist / by Amanda Coplin.
pages cm
ISBN 978-0-06-218850-2
1. Fruit growers—Fiction. 2. Orchards—Northwest, Pacific—Fiction. 3. Pregnant teenagers—Fiction. 4. Families—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3603.O647O73 2012
813'.6—dc23
2012005466
12 13 14 15 16 OV/RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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