Acknowledgments

Thank you,

Mon chéri, for not letting me quit;

Merya, for not letting me quit;

Mamy, Papi, and Marwan, for not letting me quit;

Scott, for not letting me quit;

Amy Tannenbaum, for not letting me quit;

Claudia, Maggie, Colette, and Joe, for not letting me quit.

Thank you, Paul and Corky, Andrej and Jessica, Anne, Cooper, and Tika, for visiting 17 Swann Street.

Thank you, Leslie Gelbman, for falling in love with 17 Swann Street.

Thank you, Alienor Moore, Henri Mohrman, Riwa Zwein, Lynn Dagher, Helen and Karen Karam, Jane Swim, Isabelle Hoët, Rose McInerney, Jen Enderlin, Dori Weintraub, Tiffany Shelton, and everyone at St. Martin’s Press, and most importantly,

thank you to the girls at 17 Swann Street.

Yara