Matt Sumell, Michael Andreason, Marisa Matarazzo: mighty indeed.
Elliot Holt for being a gatherer of writers, just when I most needed it.
Everyone at Riverhead, especially: Claire McGinnis and Katie Freeman (!!), Geoff Kloske, Danya Kukafka, Kate Stark, Jynne Martin, and Glory Plata.
Glenn Schaeffer, the International Center for Writing and Translation at UC Irvine, the Squaw Valley Community of Writers, the Tin House Writers’ Conference, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference for generous and much appreciated support.
Jon Davis and the faculty and students at Institute of American Indian Arts for infusing my year with wisdom, humor, stories and conversations about stories.
Several books were especially helpful in the writing of this novel: Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum, Class: A Guide Through the American Status System by Paul Fussell and Old Money by Nelson W. Aldrich, Jr.
The Ragdale Foundation, for continuing to be a place where art is made.
My unimaginably great family: my parents for forever-faith, my dear sister, my amazing in-laws, my uncles and aunts and cousins and cousin-lets.
My friends, especially the lifelong variety: Melissa McNeely, Phoebe Waldendziak, Kari Hennigan, Byron Thayer, Ashby Lankford, Lauren Coleman and Margaux Sanchez.
Teo: for every mega-good thing you do every day forever, whoa.
Clay: for providing gorgeous, unflagging gusto.
Prairie: you were my inside companion while I finished this book and I feel sure that you made magic happen. This one is for and because of you, Miss Lemon Pie.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ramona Ausubel is the author of the novel No One Is Here Except All of Us, winner of the PEN Center USA Fiction Award and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award. She is also the author of the story collection A Guide to Being Born, and has been published in The New Yorker, One Story, The Paris Review Daily, and Best American Fantasy.
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