Excerpt from Delayed Rays of a Star by Amanda Lee Koe, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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Delayed Rays of a Star by Amanda Lee Koe

Delayed Rays of a Star

by Amanda Lee Koe
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  • Jul 9, 2019, 400 pages
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  • Jun 2020, 400 pages
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The photographer turned the knob swiftly with his thumb to advance the film, sounding a ratchety zip, the amorous call of a lonesome cicada on a quiet summer night, half a second of blinding flash lapsing into the white heat of the party, as the likenesses of these three women were registered scrupulously together by the evenhanded and all- seeing eye of his camera.

Excerpted from Delayed Rays of a Star by Amanda Lee Koe. Copyright © 2019 by Amanda Lee Koe . Excerpted by permission of Nan A. Talese. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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