A JOVE BOOK
Published by Berkley
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Copyright © 2018 by Helen Hoang
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hoang, Helen, author.
Title: The kiss quotient / Helen Hoang.
Description: New York : JOVE / Berkley, 2018. | “A JOVE book”—Verso title page.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017061141| ISBN 9780451490803 (paperback) | ISBN 9780451490810 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Women mathematicians—Fiction. | Asperger’s syndrome—Fiction. | Escort services—Fiction. | Man-woman relationships—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Romance / Contemporary. | FICTION / Contemporary Women. | GSAFD: Love stories.
Classification: LCC PS3608.O1775 K57 2018 | DDC 813/.6—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017061141
First Edition: June 2018
Cover design and illustration by Colleen Reinhart
Background equation texture by Marina Sun / Shutterstock
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, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
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