Fingerprints of You (34 page)

© Christopher Gordon

Kristen-Paige Madonia
is the 2012 D.H. Lawrence Fellow and the recipient of the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Fiction Prize. Her short fiction has appeared in various anthologies and journals including including
Upstreet
,
New Orleans Review
, and
American Fiction: Best Previously Unpublished Stories by Emerging Writers
. She has received awards or residencies from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, The Hambidge Center, The Vermont Studio Center, Juniper Summer Writing Institute, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Hedgebrook, The Millay Colony for the Arts, the Key West Literary Seminar, and The Studios of Key West. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from California State University, Long Beach, and currently lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she teaches fiction. Visit her at
kristenpaigemadonia.com
.

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publications where portions of this book first appeared:
American Fiction, Volume 11: The Best Previously Unpublished Stories by Emerging Authors
and
Sycamore Review.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Madonia, Kristen-Paige.

Fingerprints of you / Kristen-Paige Madonia. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

Summary: After spending her life moving from place to place with her single mother, pregnant seventeen-year-old Lemon takes a bus to San Francisco to seek the father she never knew, as well as truths about her mother and herself.

ISBN 978-1-4424-2920-8 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-4424-2922-2 (eBook)

[1. Coming of age—Fiction. 2. Mothers and daughters—Fiction. 3. Single-parent families—Fiction. 4. Moving, Household—Fiction. 5. Pregnancy—Fiction. 6. Fathers and daughters—Fiction. 7. San Francisco (Calif.)—Fiction.]  I. Title.

PZ7.M26572Fin 2012

[Fic]—dc23

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