Lucky Us

  225 Varick Street

  New York, New York 10014

  © 2001 by Joan Silber. All rights reserved.

  Grateful acknowledgment is given to the copyright holder for permission to reprint an excerpt from Mark Epstein’s Thoughts Without a Thinker, ©1995 by Mark Epstein, M.D. Reprinted by permission of Basic Books, a member of Perseus Books, L.L.C.

  This is a work of fiction. While, as in all fiction, the literary perceptions and insights are based on experience, all names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. No reference to any real person is intended or should be inferred.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available for a previous edition of this work.

  E-book ISBN 978-1-56512-769-2

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  In the City, a novel

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