Desperada

Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Toronto Flateyri Paris Barcelona Berlin Istanbul Koh Pha Ngan Acknowledgements About the Author Landmarks Cover Cover Title Page Table of Contents Start Copyright Print Page List iii iv 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 81 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 129 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 187 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 231 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 269 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 309 310 313 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 PUBLISHED BY RANDOM HOUSE CANADA
 Copyright © 2023 Sofia Mostaghimi
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 Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
 Title: Desperada / Sofia Mostaghimi.
 Names: Mostaghimi, Sofia, author.
 Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20220257124 | Canadiana (ebook) 20220257132 | ISBN 9781039003392 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781039003408 (EPUB)
 Classification: LCC PS8626.O8435 D47 2023 | DDC C813/.6—dc23
 Text design: Lisa Jager, adapted for ebook.
 Cover design: Lisa Jager
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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
 
 I’d like to begin by thanking my wonderful agent, Stephanie Sinclair, for your quiet understanding and enthusiastic support while I nursed this book and a newborn.
 Heartfelt thanks to 
 SOFIA MOSTAGHIMI is a Toronto-based fiction writer. Her work has appeared in Joyland Magazine, The Fiddlehead, and The Puritan, among others, and has been long-listed for the Journey Prize and the