ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to three of the best readers and writers I’ve ever known—Paul Cody, Martha Collins, and Brian Hall—as well as young readers Liam and Austin Cody and Madeleine Moss for their advice and encouragement. And thanks to my extraordinary agent, Sara Crowe; my skillful editor, Lucia Monfried; and all the people at Dutton for transforming 344 kilobytes of text into that everyday miracle, a real live between-covers hold-in-your-hands book.