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Also by Jessica Francis Kane:

Fonseca, August 2025
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Rules for Visiting, May 2020
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The Report, September 2010
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RULES FOR VISITING
By: Jessica Francis Kane

Penguin Books
May 2020
On Sale: April 28, 2020
304 pages
ISBN: 0525559248
EAN: 9780525559245
Kindle: B07H73ZC1M
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint)
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Women's Fiction Contemporary

Dry, witty, and unapologetic, May Attaway loves literature and her work as a botanist for the university in her hometown. More at home with plants than people, May begins to suspect she isn’t very good at friendship and wonders if it’s possible to improve with practice. Granted some leave from her job, she sets out on a journey to spend time with four long-neglected friends.

Smart, funny, and full of compassion, Rules for Visiting is the story of a search for friendship in the digital age, a singular look at the way we stay in touch. While May travels, she studies her friends’ lives and begins to confront the pain of her own.

With simplicity and honesty, Jessica Francis Kane has crafted an exquisite story about a woman trying to find a new way to be in the world. This nourishing book, with its beautiful contemplation of travel, trees, family, and friendship, is the perfect antidote to our chaotic times.