The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors (40 page)

Thank you to Michelle Brower for championing my debut novel, to Sarah Knight, my editor, for her passion and hard work. To my mom—for teaching me faith. To Brigitte McCray, Gemma Driver, Tom De Haven, Tommy Van Auken, Carol Stone, Joy Payne, Bill Tester, Kim Lavach, Peter Young, Sal-Baby, my friends and family. Thank you to Christopher Robin for insight, and thank you to Danny Stone for everything.

Michele Young-Stone is a lightning strike survivor. She earned her MFA in fiction writing from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2005 and currently resides in Virginia with her husband and son.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2010 by Michele Young-Stone

All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Shaye Areheart Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Young-Stone, Michele.
   The handbook for lightning strike survivors : a novel / by Michele Young-Stone. — 1st ed.
         p. cm.
1. Lightning—Fiction. 2. Life change events—Fiction. I. Title.
   PS3625.O975H36 2010
   813′.6—dc22

2009016611              

eISBN: 978-0-307-46449-1

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