The Hunger

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Name: Katsu, Alma author.

Title: The hunger : a novel / Alma Katsu.

Description: New York : G. P. Putnam’s Sons, [2018] | “Created by Paper Lantern Lit.”

Identifiers: LCCN 2017019689 | ISBN 9780735212510 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780735212527 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Donner Party—Fiction. | GSAFD: Horror fiction. | Historical fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3611.A7886 H86 2018 | DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017019689

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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, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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