Where'd You Go, Bernadette(92)

The Cassella girls: Elise, Julia, and Sara, without whose decency and charm, there’d be no Bee.

At Little, Brown: Terry Adams, Reagan Arthur, Emily Cavedon, Nicole Dewey, Heather Fain, Keith Hayes, Michael Pietsch, Nathan Rostron—sometimes I think my whole writing career is an elaborate ruse to make you take my calls—Geoff Shandler, Amanda Tobier, Jayne Yaffe Kemp.

Deep, lifelong thanks to: Nicholas Callaway, Mia Farrow, Merrill Markoe, Peter Mensch, Ann Roth, James Salter, Larry Salz, Bruce Wagner.

For the Seattle embrace: the parents, faculty, and staff of the ___ school, Mr. Levys all, gnats not a one. Huge thanks to my comrades at Seattle7Writers, Elliott Bay Book Company, University Books, and the Richard Hugo House.


Most of all: George Meyer, who, with kindness and minimal complaint, suffers the arrows so I can wall off and write. Thanks for sticking with me, baby.