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Table of Contents Title Page Copyright Page Epigraph good-bye to everyone spooky girlfriend i don’t want to bore you, but . . . locker 1 october 4 october notes the house of cayne parents, idiots, and incompetents school carl my heart, previously halloween the basement milk shake get drunk carl is dead thanksgiving disc one christmas disc two new year’s eve january journal entry mumler 7 february grief can really fuck you up 4 ever, m a p more mail valentine’s day a step away from them the channel cemetery salamanders hay in a stack of needles schooled then carl the difficulty of forgetting waiting for a whale flight Acknowledgements READERS GUIDE TO as simple as snow PRAISE FOR as simple as snow “As Simple as Snow is one of the best books I’ve read in a long, long time. Galloway draws you into another world, and you’ll be wholly involved from the opening line, with its blunt force. He awakens all our curiosities and then satisfies them, so that the only question left unanswered is how long it’ll be before he gives us something else to read.” —Kaye Gibbons, author of Divining Women “There’s no doubt this rich, complex puzzle is the work of a talented author.”—Publishers Weekly “An intriguing read.” —Library Journal “Fascinating . . . oddly mesmerizing. Its ambiguities and unanswered questions, its teasing foreshadowings and foreboding make it hard to forget.”—Booklist “Engagingly written.”—Kirkus Reviews THE BERKLEY PUBLISHING GROUP Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, M4P 2Y3 Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) Penguin Books Ltd., 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Group Ireland, 25 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd.) Penguin Group (Australia), 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia (a division of Pearson Australia Group Pty. Ltd.) Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd., 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi—110 017, India Penguin Group (NZ), Cnr. Airborne and Rosedale Roads, Albany, Auckland 1310, New Zealand (a division of Pearson New Zealand Ltd.) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty.) Ltd., 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank, Johannesburg 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd., Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party websites or their content. Copyright © 2005 by Gregory Galloway. Lines from “A Season in Hell” are reprinted from Arthur Rimbaud: Complete Works, translated and copyright © 1967, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975 by Paul Schmidt. . All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights. Purchase only authorized editions. BERKLEY is a registered trademark of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. The “B” design is a trademark belonging to Penguin Group (USA) Inc. eISBN : 978-1-44068469-2 Galloway, Gregory. As simple as snow / Gregory Galloway. p. cm. eISBN : 978-1-44068469-2 1. High school students—Fiction. 2. Missing persons—Fiction. 3. Teenage boys—Fiction. I. Title. PS3607.A419A 813’.6—dc22 http://us.penguingroup.com That, mermaid-like, unto the floor she slid, One half appeared, the other half was hid. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, Hero and Leander
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