The Year We Turned Forty (39 page)

This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2016 by Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke

Cover Design by Connie Gabbert Design

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Fenton, Liz, author. | Steinke, Lisa, author.

Title: The year we turned forty : a novel / Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke.

Description: First Washington Square Press trade paperback edition. | New York : Washington Square Press, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015041738 (print) | LCCN 2015044930 (ebook) Subjects:

BISAC: FICTION / Contemporary Women. | FICTION / Family Life. |

  FICTION / Humorous.

Classification: LCC PS3606.E5844 Y43 2016 (print) | LCC PS3606.E5844 (ebook)

  | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at
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ISBN 978-1-4767-6344-6

ISBN 978-1-4767-6345-3 (ebook)