The motor of the car hummed around them, and Craig’s father continued to cough—and there she was, that beauty, flipping her hair over her shoulder, glancing at Craig, making eye contact briefly, and then looking away.
Acknowledgments
For their brilliant editing advice and tireless support, I thank Lisa Bankoff and Katherine Nintzel and Bill Abernethy with all my heart.
For being my best friend in this world or any other, Antonya Nelson.
For the blessing of Lucy Abernethy, my beautiful, smart, strong stepdaughter.
For support above and beyond and over the years: Carrie Wilson, Eileen Pollack, Jill Elder, Nancy Gargano, Holly Abernethy, Andrea Beauchamp, Linda Gregerson, Pastor Doris Sparks, Laura Thomas, Debra Spark, Tony Hoagland, and Keith Taylor.
For trade secrets, fun talks, and being the best student ever, Sara Johnson-Cardona.
Thank you to the University of Michigan’s English Department and Residential College and my colleagues and students for generous support and inspiration of all sorts.
And for the perfect plot advice at the crucial moment, thanks to my extraordinary son and fellow writer, Jack Abernethy.
About the Author
LAURA KASISCHKE teaches at the University of Michigan in the MFA program and the Residential College. She has published seven collections of poetry and eight novels. Her writing has won numerous awards, and two of her novels have been made into films. She lives with her family in Chelsea, Michigan.
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Credits
Cover design by Robin Bilardello
Cover photograph by Blasius Erlinger/Getty Images
Author photograph © Patrice Normand/Opale
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE RAISING. Copyright © 2011 by Laura Kasischke. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub Edition March 2011 ISBN: 9780062042385
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kasischke, Laura, 1961–
The raising : a novel / Laura Kasischke.—1st ed.
p.cm.
ISBN 978-0-06-200478-9
1. Psychological fiction. I. Title.
PS3561.A6993S88 2011
813'.54—dc22
2010021605
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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