Kingdom of the Young

by Edie Meidav

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  To Stan for inspired understanding, to Eliana for brilliant insight, to Dalia for joyful depth.

  To my first family and to Mae Ziglin Meidav.

  Thanks to the meaning offered by friends, teachers and students; the community granted by Kristen, Sarah, Ariel, and Sarabande; Joy; the faith of Brad and Micaela at Conjunctions and Laura and Oscar at Zyzzyva. Thanks to The Millions, Guernica/PEN, The Common, The Chicago Tribune, Terra Nova Books/MIT Press, The Kenyon Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Chattahoochee Review, Bard Papers, Big Big Wednesday, The Massachusetts Review, The American Literary Review, and other sites for publishing prior versions of many pieces.

  Thanks to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the Lannan Foundation, the Howard Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, the Bard Fiction Prize, the Kafka Prize from the University of Rochester, Fundación Valparaíso, Cummington Community of the Arts, the Fulbright Commissions of Sri Lanka and Cyprus, VSC, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony.

  Edie Meidav is the author of three novels—The Far Field, Crawl Space, and Lola, California. Her honors include a Lannan Fellowship, the Kafka Prize for Best Novel by an American Woman, the Bard Fiction Prize, a Whiting Research Award, and a Howard Fellowship. She teaches in the University of Massachusetts-Amherst MFA program.

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