Credits and AcknowledgmentsAuthor: Mary Ann Rivers
Editor: Ruthie Knox
First Readers: Alexis Hall, Julie Darby, Emily Sylvan Kim
Copyeditor: Kelly Lauer
Cover Photography: Jan Rios
Cover Model: Leann McDaniel
Photography Art Direction: Samantha Novak
Cover Design: Book Beautiful
Proofreader: Beaumont Hardy Editing
Interior Design: Williams Writing, Editing & Design
I wrote My Only Sunshine after imagining it and daydreaming about it and thinking of possible scenes for it, before I feel asleep, for months. For a time, it was one of my most pleasurable pastimes — inventing the spaces of this story. For so long I had argued that the loves we have as children and teenagers, the ones where we truly fall in love, aren’t any less real than those we experience later. They occupy our whol
