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immediately following the handover of Hong Kong to China. His stories have appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2001 and 2003 and The Pushcart Prize XXVI, and he has received a Whiting Writers’ Award and a fellowship in fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in New York City and teaches at Montclair State University.

THE TRAIN TO LO WU

A Dial Press Trade Paperback Book

Published by The Dial Press

A Division of Random House, Inc.

New York, New York

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents

either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used

fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead,

events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

The stories in this collection originally appeared, in different form,

in the following publications and anthologies: “Revolutions” in

Green Mountains Review, “The Secrets of Bats” and “The Train to Lo

Wu” in Ploughshares, “The American Girl” in Ontario Review, “The

Ferry” in Threepenny Review, “For You” in Kyoto Journal, and

“Heaven Lake” in Harvard Review.

“The Secrets of Bats” appeared in The Best American Short Stories

2001, and The Pushcart Prize XXVI: Best of the Small Presses. “Heaven

Lake” appeared in The Best American Short Stories 2003.

All rights reserved.

Copyright © 2005 by Jess Row

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 200456201

The Dial Press and Dial Press Trade Paperbacks are registered

trademarks of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a

trademark of Random House, Inc.

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eISBN: 978-0-307-42339-9

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