Revival Season - Monica West (10 ebook reader .TXT) 📗

Clinton, and Patrice Reynolds, thank you for loving me, supporting me, and doing life with me.

The word “friend” doesn’t even begin to approach what these three women have been to me. Marlissa Hudson, Tynesia Boyea-Robinson, and Demetria Elmore, you are my sisters—my chosen family. I don’t know what I did to earn your unconditional love and support, but I never want a day to go by when I don’t thank you for being incredible, amazing women who know me better than I know myself and push me to be the best version of that self. I can’t wait to celebrate this book release with you!

I come from a big extended family of grandparents, aunts, great aunts, uncles, great uncles, and cousins who have loved me from the beginning and been instrumental in making me who I am. A piece of all of you is in me, and this novel is a testament to your enduring influence in my life.

To Angela Malone—my big sister—you were the first audience for many of my stories. I always hear your voice in my ear spurring me on and telling me that you believe in me, and that has made all the difference. I love you so very much. To Ava, Evan, and Lauren Malone, I am honored that I get to be your Auntie Monica. It has been one of the biggest joys of my life to watch you grow into the brave, smart, fearless, and kind young people that you are becoming.

Last, but definitely not least, to my mom and dad, Edna and Henry West. You read to me when I was little and helped me imagine worlds that existed in books. You fed my imagination, supported my creativity, nurtured my wild dreams, answered my incessant questions, and loved me unconditionally. Even when you haven’t agreed with my decisions, you supported them. I have never known a love like the love you both have for me. Every word in every book that I will ever write belongs to you.

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About the Author

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Monica West was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. She received her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2017, where she was a Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow. She currently resides in Oakland, California.

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Interior design by Lewelin Polanco

Jacket design by Tristan Offit

Jacket photographs: Revival by Andrew Shurtleff; Tent by Eric Limon and Sunset by Blickwinkel, Alamy Stock Photo

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

ISBN 978-1-9821-3330-6

ISBN 978-1-9821-3332-0 (ebook)