I am speechless with gratitude to my incomparable editor, Jordan Pavlin, who has been a wellspring of patience and insight, and whose swift, sure readings of this book transformed it; and to Kim Witherspoon, my extraordinary agent, whose calm voice sounded in my ear at anxious moments. Also to Ellen Feldman, Katie Schoder, and Nicholas Thomson at Knopf, and to Maria Whelan and Alexis Hurley at Inkwell.
I’m deeply grateful to my children, Jacob and Lil, who were born during this novel’s writing and attained the ages of eight and four before its completion. (Jacob accompanied me to Marseille in utero, and is now big enough to analyze my thematic intent during our walks in Brooklyn.)
Finally, I’m grateful to my husband, Ryan Harty, who read numerous versions of these pages and asked all the right questions; who cooked hundreds of dinners and spent thousands of hours taking care of our kids; and whose love is my home and refuge.
*1 Stéphane Hessel, The Power of Indignation, trans. E. C. Belli (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2012), pp. 69–70.
*2 Alfred Kinsey, “Homosexuality: Criteria for a Hormonal Explanation of the Homosexual,” Journal of Clinical Endocrinology 1, no. 5 (May 1941): 424–48; Varian Fry Papers, Columbia University, Box 6.
*3 Andy Marino, A Quiet American: The Secret War of Varian Fry (New York: Macmillan, 2000), p. 339.
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
Liveright Publishing Corporation: Excerpt from “my darling since” from Complete Poems: 1904–1962 by E. E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage. Copyright © 1931, 1959, 1991 by the Trustees for the E. E. Cummings Trust. Copyright © 1979 by George James Firmage. Reprinted by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation.
Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, and W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.: Excerpt of “After Fifty Years” from The Marble Faun and A Green Bough by William Faulkner, copyright © 1924 by the Four Seas Company and renewed 1952 by William Faulkner. Print rights administered by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, and electronic rights administered by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, and W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. All rights reserved.
Stanford University Press: Excerpt of “Marc Chagall: In Lisbon Before Departure (Poem)” by Marc Chagall, from Marc Chagall and His Times A Documentary Narrative by Benjamin Harshav. Translation copyright © 2003 by Benjamin Harshav. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Stanford University Press.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Julie Orringer is the author of two award-winning books: The Invisible Bridge, a novel, and the short-story collection How to Breathe Underwater, both New York Times Notable Books. She is the winner of The Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize and the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, the MacDowell Colony, and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn.
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