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Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE SOUVENIR MUSEUM. Copyright © 2021 by Elizabeth McCracken. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, 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 hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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FIRST EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: McCracken, Elizabeth, author.

Title: The souvenir museum : stories / Elizabeth McCracken.

Description: First edition. | New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021]

Identifiers: LCCN 2020040870 (print) | LCCN 2020040871 (ebook) | ISBN 9780062971289

(hardcover) | ISBN 9780062971265 (ebook)

Subjects: LCGFT: Short stories.

Classification: LCC PS3563.C35248 S68 2021 (print) | LCC PS3563.C35248 (ebook) | DDC 813/.54

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LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020040870

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020040871

Digital Edition APRIL 2021 ISBN: 978-0-06-297126-5

Version 03052021

Print ISBN: 978-0-06-297128-9