Excerpt from Alone With You by Marisa Silver, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

She smiled and took a drag on the cigarette. She let out a smooth trail of smoke. She kept her eyes closed as Vivian and her father watched the delicate curl of smoke dissolve and disappear, like sugar on the tongue.

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