The Season of Migration (31 page)

Huge gratitude to Chris Adrian, for generosity and brilliance beyond belief, and for understanding what I was up to in a way not even I did.

Thank you to my family, for everything, always.

And I need to reach beyond the grave to thank Vincent van Gogh, the man himself, whose life and brilliance in words and pictures provided the inspiration for this novel and afforded me a fascinating and ever-complicated home to live in for a number of years.

 

ALSO BY NELLIE HERMANN

The Cure for Grief

 

A Note About the Author

Nellie Hermann was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her first novel,
The Cure for Grief
, was published in 2008. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University and has taught and lectured widely on the use of creativity in nontraditional contexts.

 

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Copyright © 2015 by Nellie Hermann

All rights reserved

First edition, 2015

 

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint excerpts from
Vincent van Gogh—The Letters: The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition
, 6 volumes, edited by Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten, and Nienke Bakker, London/Amsterdam, 2009 (
www.vangoghletters.org
).

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hermann, Nellie, 1978–

    The season of migration / Nellie Hermann. — First edition.

        pages cm

    ISBN 978-0-374-25547-3 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-0-374-71173-3 (ebook)

    1.  Gogh, Vincent van, 1853–1890—Fiction.   I.  Title.

PS3608.E7636 S43 2015

813
'
.6—dc23

2014017263

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