Dedication
Animals
Gifted
Semester Abroad
Sell Out
Guy Walks into a Bar
Family Business
The Tribal Rite of the Strombergs
Distractions
Played Out
Rip
Upper East Side Ghosts
Big Break
Acknowledgments
About the Author
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Copyright
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 © 2014 by Simon Rich
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Portions of this book have appeared, in slightly different form, in Medium.com (“Elf on the Shelf”) and The New Yorker / Condé Nast Publications (“Guy Walks into a Bar,” “Family Business,” “The Tribal Rite of the Strombergs,” and “Sell Out”). “Semester Abroad” was originally published in Funny or Die’s The Occasional © 2013, Funny or Die, Inc. All rights reserved.
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