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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Fisher, Erin Frances
[Short stories. Selections]
That tiny life / Erin Frances Fisher.
Short stories.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-4870-0366-1 (softcover). — ISBN 978-1-4870-0367-8 (EPUB). — ISBN 978-1-4870-0368-5 (Kindle)
I. Title.
PS8611.I837A6 2018 C813'.6 C2017-904733-7
C2017-904734-5
Cover design and typsetting: Alysia Shewchuk
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We acknowledge for their financial support of our publishing program
the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund.