Acknowledgements

Thank you to my family and friends for their love and support as I lived and floundered, working to create this book.

Thank you to the team of remarkable women who stood with me: my editor, Whitney Moran, and my agents, Carolyn Forde and Chelene Knight.

Thank you to Lisa Moore, Joel Thomas Hynes, and Barry Callaghan for their early encouragement of my work, without which I may not have dared to complete this project.

Thank you to the Canada Council for the Arts and the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council for funding that contributed to this project.