We Are Called to Rise (30 page)
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Copyright © 2014 by Laura McBride
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Interior design by Robert Ettlin
Jacket design by Christopher Lin
Jacket photographs: Blue sky © Bartosz Hadyniak/Getty Images; Mojave desert © Jaclyn Sollars/Getty Images; Ice cream truck © Hero Images/Corbis
Author photograph by Michelle Adams
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McBride, Laura.
We are called to rise / Laura McBride. — First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
pages cm
1. Women immigrants—Fiction. 2. Mother and child—Fiction. 3. Immigrants—Crimes against—Fiction. 4. Murder—Fiction. 5. Las Vegas (Nev.)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3613.C284W4 2014
813'.6—dc 232013034756
ISBN 978-1-4767-3896-3
ISBN 978-1-4767-3898-7 (ebook)
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