Love in the Present Tense (25 page)

CATHERINE RYAN HYDE

Love

in the

Present

Tense

Catherine Ryan Hyde, an acclaimed novelist and award-winning short story writer, is the author of the story collection
Earthquake Weather
and of the novels
Funerals for Horses, Electric God, Walter's Purple Heart, Becoming Chloe
, and
Pay It Forward
, which was named an ALA Book of the Year and made into a feature film. She lives in Cambria, California.

Also by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Funerals for Horses

Earthquake Weather

Pay It Forward

Electric God

Walter's Purple Heart

Becoming Chloe

FIRST VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES EDITION, JULY
2007

Copyright © 2006 by Catherine Ryan Hyde

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday/Flying Dolphin Press, an imprint of The Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2006.

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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 in entirely coincidental.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Doubleday/Flying Dolphin Press edition as follows:
Hyde, Catherine Ryan.

Love in the present tense : a novel / Catherine Ryan Hyde.

p. cm.

1. Racially mixed people—Fiction. 2. Domestic fiction. I. Title.

PS3558.Y358L68 2006

813'.54—dc22

2005054760

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eISBN: 978-0-307-38689-2

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