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A big thank you and huge hug to all the amazing people at Random House Children’s Books: Jillian Vandall (the best publicist a girl could ask for), Kim Lauber, Hannah Black, Dominique Cimina, Casey Ward, Alissa Nigro, John Adamo, Nicole Morano, Rebecca Gudelis, Colleen Fellingham, and the awesomesauce Laura Antonacci. Deeply appreciative to the international rights team at ICM, to Sharon Green, and to my Internet water cooler, the Fiction Writers Co-op. A monster hug to Julia Johnson. And a shout out to Kathleen Caldwell and A Great Good Place for Books, which is indisputably the best indie bookstore in the world.
I did an enormous amount of research for this book. If you’re interested in learning more about the autism spectrum or how to be an ally, please email me through my website and I’d be happy to share my reading list as a starting place. I’m still learning. I hope you’ll join me.
To the readers out there who make this writing books thing possible, you are my favorite tribe. I can’t thank you enough for letting me do every day what I only used to daydream about. Thank you for your emails, for your letters, for your tweets, for your blog posts, for your photos, for coming out to say hi on tour, for all your support. You guys rock. I owe you my eternal gratitude.
And lastly, thank you to my kick-ass friends and family. To my dad and Lena for making everyone you’ve met since birth come to my events. To my brother for cheering me on. To Mammaji for all the child care and for making sure I nailed the details of Kit’s family. To the rest of the Flore clan for letting me join the family. To my mother and grandmother, who, if the quantum physicists are right, I like to think live somehow in the souls of these pages. And lastly, to Indy, Elili, and Luca, who breathe meaning and love into my every day. I am the luckiest girl in the multiverse.
JULIE BUXBAUM is the author of Tell Me Three Things, her debut YA novel. She also wrote the critically acclaimed The Opposite of Love and After You. Her work has been translated into twenty-five languages. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two young children.
Visit Julie online at juliebuxbaum.com and follow @juliebux on Twitter.