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Acknowledgments


For supporting me as I write the books I want to write, for excelling at what they do, and for being so much fun to work with, I am deeply grateful to my agent, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh; my editor, Jennifer Hershey; and my publicist, Maria Braeckel. I thank the many other wonderful people I work with at WME, including Raffaella DeAngelis, Tracy Fisher, Elizabeth Sheinkman, Alicia Gordon, Erin Conroy, Jill Gillett, Suzanne Gluck, Eve Attermann, Eric Zohn, Alicia Everett, Sabrina Giglio, Becky Chalsen, and Erika Niven, and the equally wonderful people I work with at Random House, including Gina Centrello, Avideh Bashirrad, Theresa Zoro, Christine Mykityshyn, Sally Marvin, Leigh Marchant, Susan Kamil, Sanyu Dillon, Caitlin McCaskey, Anastasia Whalen, Khusbu Bhakta, Erin Kane, Benjamin Dreyer, Jessica Yung, Janet Wygal, Bonnie Thompson, Jessica Bonet, Stephanie Reddaway, Paolo Pepe, Robbin Schiff, and Liz Eno. Marianne Velmans and Patsy Irwin at Transworld in the U.K. look out for me and my writing from across an ocean. A book publication is always a collaborative act, and I am so lucky that these are my collaborators.

In addition, I thank the smart and patient editors who originally shepherded some of these stories into print: above all, Willing Davidson, as well as Scott Stossel, Maria Streshinsky, David Rowell, and Elizabeth Merrick.

I thank the people who read early drafts and/or helped me sort out specific facts: Nick Arvin, Matt Bodie and Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff, Dave Carlson, Sheena MJ Cook, emily m. danforth, Susanna Daniel, Matthew Klam, Grace Lee, Consuelo and Ian Macpherson, Edward McPherson, Maile Meloy, Emily Miller, Annie Morriss, Sasha Polonsky Tulgan, Shauna Seliy, Malena Watrous, and Jennifer Weiner. Beth Guterman Chu, who knows much more about classical music than I do, actually wrote many of the sentences in the emails in “Plausible Deniability.” Andrea Denny is a delightful person with whom to discuss suburban life. For being good sports about my books and for occasionally letting me steal details when they’re so juicy or perfect I can’t resist, I thank my parents, Betsy and Paul Sittenfeld, as well as my siblings and their spouses: Tiernan Sittenfeld and Darren Speece; Josephine Sittenfeld and Thad Russell; and P. G. Sittenfeld and Sarah Coyne Sittenfeld. I thank my husband, Matt, and our children for being my true story.

My beloved friend Samuel Park was the first reader of many of these stories. Sam died in April 2017. It’s not the same to be a writer without his brilliant, witty, and encouraging feedback, and it’s not the same to be a person in the world without his friendship.