Thank you to the friends and mentors who read drafts of Sodom Road Exit over the past four years. I completed this novel with the council of Vivek Shraya, Tom Leger, Torrey Peters, Hiromi Goto, Chelsea Rooney, Carmen Wiseman, Richard Van Camp, and Jónína Kirton.
Thank you to the Peoples of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, onto whose territories I was born and raised.
Thank you to the Fort Erie Historical Museum, whose collected edition Many Voices II provided an invaluable research text. I have both honoured and altered many historical facts throughout my novel, in particular I have treated the Crystal Beach Cyclone and the Comet roller coasters as one composite “character.”
Thank you to my Dad for sending me Crystal Beach postcards and memorabilia, and for telling me stories about working at the Park as a Magic Carpet Ride operator.
And a loving thank you to my Mamma, Sandra Anna, for photographing places I needed for setting references. Thanks for jumping guardrails and hopping ditches to get the picture.