Georgia Bottoms

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  The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

  Copyright © 2011 by Mark Childress

  Reading group guide copyright © 2012 by Mark Childress and Little, Brown and Company

  Cover design by Ploy Siripant. Cover photograph © fStop / Wildcard Images, UK. Cover © 2012 Hachette Book Group, Inc.

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  ISBN 978-0-316-12196-5