Acknowledgments
We wrote this novel in the relative dark, with no idea where it would lead us. Thank you to our agent, Faye Bender, who saw the story clearly from the start, and to our editor, Pilar Garcia-Brown, who lit the way forward. Thanks to our wonderful team at HMH: Liz Anderson, Hannah Dirgins, Liz Duvall, Jenny Freilach, Mark Robinson, and Taryn Roeder.
Thank you to Brenna Mork Barringer, Robin Carol, Elana Cogliano, Maddy Court, Molly Dektar, Liz Dickey, Amanda Faraone, Jason Holloway, Julia Kardon, Bo Lewis, Laura Macomber, Ilana Papir, and Lucía Sirota for their invaluable insights and encouragement.
Thank you to the Brooklyn College MFA program and in particular to Helen Phillips, Joshua Henkin, Ellen Tremper, and the Truman Capote Trust.
Thank you to Eliot and Téo, who w
