The Geometry of Sisters (41 page)

For his valuable help with mathematics, I thank Injae Choe. All errors in this book are my own.

With gratitude to Teresa Lonergan for introducing me to Rose Hawthorne.

I am enormously grateful to everyone at Bantam Books, especially Irwyn Applebaum, Nita Taublib, Tracy Devine, Kerri Buckley, Betsy Hulsebosch, Carolyn Schwartz, Melissa Lord, Cynthia Lasky Barb Burg, Susan Corcoran, Gina Wachtel, Paolo Pepe, and Virginia Norey.

Thank you to Andrea Cirillo for everything.

LUANNE RICE is the author of twenty-six novels, most recently
Last Kiss, Light of the Moon, What Matters Most, The Edge of Winter, Sandcastles, Summer of Roses, Summer's Child, Silver Bells
, and
Beach Girls
. She lives in New York City and Old Lyme, Connecticut.

THE GEOMETRY OF SISTERS
A Bantam Book / April 2009

Published by Bantam Dell
A Division of Random House, Inc.
New York, New York

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.

All rights reserved.
Copyright © 2009 by Luanne Rice
Title page photograph by Robert Aichinger

Book design by Virginia Norey

Bantam Books is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Rice, Luanne.
The geometry of sisters / Luanne Rice.
p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-553-90622-6
1. Women teachers—Fiction. 2. Sisters—Fiction.
3. Loss (Psychology)—Fiction. 4. Private schools—Fiction.
5. Newport (R.I.)—Fiction. 6. Psychological fiction.
7. Domestic fiction. I. Title.
PS3568.I289G46 2009
813′.54—dc22
2008055703

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