A Parting Glass - a novel

Oh, Sweetie, monsters are real, and they look like people. ~ Anonymous Published in 2018 by Anamcara Press LLC Author © 2018 by Tess Banion Illustrations © 2018 by Paul Flinders Book design by Maureen Carroll Palatino Linotype and Tahoma. Printed in the United States of America. Elizabeth O’Sullivan is an eleven-year-old girl with uneven bangs and a rich imagination. She fights monsters, real and imagined, in a small Kansas town in the 1950’s. A tale of resilience and hope. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permission requests, write to the publisher, addressed “Attention: Permissions Coordinator,” at this address: ANAMCARA PRESS LLC P.O. Box 442072, Lawrence, KS 66044 https://anamcara-press.com/ Ordering Information: Quantity sales. Special discounts are available on quantity purchases by corporations, associations, and others. For details, contact the publisher at the address above. Orders by U.S. trade bookstores and wholesalers. Please contact Ingram Distribution. Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication data Banion, Tess, Author A Parting Glass / Tess Banion ISBN-13: A Parting Glass, 978-1-941237-20-5 (eBook edition) ISBN-13: A Parting Glass, 978-1-941237-13-7 (Paperback edition) ISBN-13: A Parting Glass, 978-1-941237-19-9 (Hardcover edition) FICTION / Family Life / General; Action & Adventure; Small Town & Rural. “The Parting Glass”is an Irish folk song that can be traced back to the 17th century.