ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks to Amy Moore-Benson for going to bat for this little damned lovely. To the team at Down & Out, Eric Campbell and Lance Wright for your mighty support. To Chris Rhatigan for sharpening my sloppy corners. To Cooper McMains for putting up with my dirty first drafts and most of all telling me I wasn’t crazy to keep going. To Novak for picking up the phone after so many years. To Glenn Cockburn and Conrad Sun for backing my next crazy play. To Jordan for all the inspiring steps. To MacDonald—my brother in artistic arms to the end. To Jamie and Kerry Rosenblatt for hosting that new year’s party where I actually committed to write a novel. To Dashiell and Emmett for walking out those Saturday morning coffees. And most of all, to Nora, for always believing in me—especially when I didn’t. Also to Nic—for the ten p.m. discipline, for forcing me to push out pages in my car in those blazing hot parking lots, and for seeing it through when it was nothing but a thankless word doc dream. For the armor, Nic. For the armor.