True Story : a Novel / Kate Reed Petty
VIKING An imprint of Penguin Random House LLC penguinrandomhouse.com Copyright © 2020 by Scaggsville & Severn, Inc. Penguin supports copyright. Copyright fuels creativity, encourages diverse voices, promotes free speech, and creates a vibrant culture. Thank you for buying an authorized edition of this book and for complying with copyright laws by not reproducing, scanning, or distributing any part of it in any form without permission. You are supporting writers and allowing Penguin to continue to publish books for every reader. The lines from “Diving into the Wreck” copyright © 2016 by the Adrienne Rich Literary Trust. Copyright © 1973 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., from Collected Poems: 1950– 2012 by Adrienne Rich. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA Names: Petty, Kate Reed, author. Title: True story : a novel / Kate Reed Petty. Description: [New York] : Viking, [2020] Identifiers: LCCN 2020006573 (print) | LCCN 2020006574 (ebook) | ISBN 9781984877680 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781984877697 (ebook) | ISBN 9780593296417 (international edition) Classification: LCC PS3616.E895 T78 2020 (print) | LCC PS3616.E895 (ebook) | DDC 813/.6—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020006573 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020006574 This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. pid_prh_5.5.0_c0_r0 CONTENTS Cover Title Page Copyright Epigraph Prologue: Barcelona (2015) Part I: Lax World (1999) Part II: Final Girl (2000) Part III: Lost Weekend (2008) Part IV: To Us (2011) Part V: Old Friends (2014) Epilogue: Barcelona (2015) Thank You About the Author We are, I am, you are by cowardice or courage the one who find our way back to this scene carrying a knife, a camera a book of myths in which our names do not appear.
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