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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS




I owe enormous thanks to Julie Barer for her expert guidance, Callie Garnett for her probing questions, Barbara Darko for her wise help with copyediting, Nicole Cunningham for all her help over the years, and Liese Mayer and everyone at Bloomsbury for their enthusiasm about this project. Thanks to JoEllen Anderson, Andrew Cowell, and Phoebe Hart for sharing their expertise, and to everyone at Willow Creek Ranch at the Hole-in-the-Wall for welcoming me and giving excellent directions. Thanks, as always, to my writing group: Anthony Ha, Alice Sola Kim, Karan Mahajan, Tony Tulathimutte, Annie Julia Wyman, James Yeh, and Jenny Zhang. Utmost thanks to my family, especially Toby, for advising, listening, reading, and driving.





A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR



Anna North is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the author of two previous novels, America Pacifica and The Life and Death of Sophie Stark, which received a Lambda Literary Award. She has been a writer and editor at Jezebel, BuzzFeed, Salon, and the New York Times, and she is now a senior reporter at Vox. She grew up in Los Angeles and lives in Brooklyn.