The Bridge: A Novel

  First Howard Books hardcover edition October 2012

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Kingsbury, Karen.

  The bridge : a novel / Karen Kingsbury.

  p. cm.

  I. Title.

  PS3561.I4873B75 2012

  813′.54—dc23

  2012002866

  ISBN 978-1-4516-4701-3 (print)

  ISBN 978-1-4516-4702-0 (eBook)

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