Thanks to Rudrapriya Rathore, whose comments and conversation were crucial to the idea behind this book and the shape it eventually took.
To Emily Keeler, whose steady direction across the strange way we decided to compose this thing made it happen. And Alana Wilcox, Norman Nehmetallah, and Jessica Rattray of Coach House, who continue to push it onward.
To my reading family: Mandy, Kay, Sam, and Rouba Ruthnum, for teaching me the value in doing this at all.
My incomparable agents, Samantha Haywood and Stephanie Sinclair.
To Haley Cullingham and Miranda Hickman for teaching me how to write outside of fiction.
To Ian Worang, Daniel Reid, Leigh Doyle, Justin Reed, and Chris Hogg, for the backup I needed to get this project done.
And: Kris Bertin, Rob Inch, Buddy, Graeme Desrosiers, Aaron Peck, Michael LaPointe, Andrew Sullivan, Michael Haldane, Brad Iles, Mike Barrow, Kevin Keegan, Julia Cooper, Dan Moxon, Jon Bunyan, Ben Barootes, Gorrman Lee, Kate Zagorskis, Christopher Dingwall, David Bertrand, Charlotte Dykes, Kelli Korducki, Ashley MacCuish, Andrew Forbes, Carmine Starnino, Miranda Hill, Mark Medley, Russell Wangersky, Terence Young, Valerie Compton, Gabriella Goliger, Ben McGinnis, Kevin Chong, Jordan Christianson, Cody Hicks, Deborah Hemming, Joel Deshaye, Robin Feenstra, Ariel Buckley, Ian Whittington, Justin Pfefferle, Amanda Clarke, Paula Derdiger, Michelle Ledonne, Adèle Barclay, and Alicia Merchant.