A Million Nightingales (41 page)

Copyright © 2006 by Susan Straight

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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 is entirely coincidental.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the Pantheon edition as follows:

Straight, Susan.

A million nightingales / Susan Straight.

p. cm.

1. Racially mixed people—Fiction. 2. Plantation life—Fiction. 3. Teenage girls—Fiction. 4. Women slaves—Fiction. 5. Louisiana—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3569.T6795M55 2006 813'.54—dc22 2005050052

eISBN: 978-0-307-48826-8

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