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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.

“My Friend” from
A Tear and a Smile
by Kahlil Gibran, translated by H. N. Nahmud, translation copyright © 1950 by the Estate of Kahlil Gibran. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

Doctor Zhivago
by Boris Pasternak, translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari, translation copyright © 1958 by William Collins Sons and Co. Ltd. Copyright © 1958 by Pantheon Books. Used by permission of Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

THE SWEETNESS OF TEARS
. Copyright © 2011 by Nafisa Haji.

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EPub Edition © June 2011 ISBN 9780062092038

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