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Excerpt from Best Boy by Eli Gottlieb, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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Best Boy by Eli Gottlieb

Best Boy

by Eli Gottlieb
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  • First Published:
  • Aug 24, 2015, 256 pages
  • Paperback:
  • May 2016, 256 pages
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That was how I began to drown.

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Excerpted from Best Boy: A Novel by Eli Gottlieb. Copyright © 2015 by Eli Gottlieb. With permission of the publisher, Liveright Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved.

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