The Changeling. Victor LaValle

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      Victor LaValle is the author of six previous works of fiction. He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, the Shirley Jackson Award and the Key to Southeast Queens. He lives in New York with his wife and children and teaches at Columbia University.

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      ‘I say this without exaggeration: it’s a masterpiece’

      MAT JOHNSON

      ‘Absolutely compelling, completely thrilling, The Changeling overflows with menace, wonder and beauty’

      KELLY LINK

      ‘[A] bewitching masterpiece’ USA TODAY

      by victor lavalle

      FICTION

       The Ecstatic

       Big Machine

       The Devil in Silver

       The Changeling

      NOVELLAS

       The Ballad of Black Tom

       Lucretia and the Kroons

      SHORT STORY COLLECTION

       Slapboxing with Jesus

      First published in Great Britain in 2018 by Canongate Books Ltd,

      14 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1TE

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      This digital edition first published in 2018 by Canongate Books

      Copyright © Victor LaValle, 2017

      First published in the United States by Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York

      The moral right of the author has been asserted

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

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available on request from the British Library

      ISBN 978 1 78689 382 6

      eISBN 978 1 78689 383 3

      For Emily, Geronimo, and Delilah.

      My Supreme Team.

      Contents

       1: First Comes Love

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       2: Then Comes Marriage

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       3: Then Comes Baby in a Baby Carriage

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       4: Shit, Damn, Motherfucker

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