W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.: “Saul and Patsy Are Pregnant” from A Relative Stranger by Charles Baxter. Copyright © 1990 by Charles Baxter. . W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Portions of this work have been previously published as: “Saul and Patsy Are Getting Comfortable in Michigan” in Through the Safety Net: Stories (Viking Books, 1985); “Saul and Patsy Are in Labor” in Believers (Pantheon Books, 1997).
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Pantheon edition as follows:
Baxter, Charles, 1947–
Saul and Patsy / Charles Baxter.
1. High school teachers—Fiction. 2. Married people—Fiction. 3. Michigan—Fiction.
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