Thirty Girls. Susan Minot
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Thirty Girls
Susan Minot
Fourth Estate
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First published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2014
First published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House LLC, New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada
Limited, Toronto, Penguin Random House Companies
A portion of this work originally appeared in different form
in Granta (winter 2012)
Copyright © 2014 by Susan Minot
Design by Kate Gaughran. Cover photographs © Claudia Dewald/Getty Images
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This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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Source ISBN: 9780007550722
Ebook Edition © February 2014 ISBN: 9780007568901
Version: 2015-01-30
To beloved daughters Ava Cecily Hannah
and the brave daughters of Uganda
Contents
21. Perhaps It Is Better Not to Know Some Things