Rivers

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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2013 by Michael Farris Smith

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First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition September 2013

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Author photograph by Chris Jenkins

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Smith, Michael F. (Fiction writer)

Rivers / Michael Farris Smith. — First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

pages cm.

1. Wilderness survival—Fiction. 2. Mississippi—Fiction. 3. Dystopias. I. Title.

PS3619.M592234R58 2013

813’.6—dc23 2012049521

ISBN 978-1-4516-9942-5

ISBN 978-1-4516-9944-9 (ebook)