This book is dedicated to those who are very dear to me who have suffered in the way Liv Blakely suffered. Thank you for sharing your stories with me. I hope I honored them well. All my gratitude for helping make the manuscript as strong as it could be. All mistakes and flaws in the telling are my own.
A few notes on the art in the novel.
LeFeber’s fictional installation near the end was partially inspired by two different modern art pieces:
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu’s Angel
Laura Belém’s The Temple of a Thousand Bells
The LACMA installation described in the book is Chris Burden’s Urban Light, one of my favorite works of art.
The concepts for Liv’s paintings were entirely made up, although there is a long history of bird-human hybrids/ transformations in art.