My heartfelt thanks to my terrific agent, Harvey Klinger; my wonderful editor, Trena Keating; and the very talented people at Plume Books, including Laura Blumenthal, Norina Frabotta, Brant Janeway, and Lucy Kim.
Special thanks to Stephen Glass, for more reasons than I could possibly list.
I am extremely grateful for the kindess, generosity, and skill of those who helped with French publication and translation – Larry Berger, Anouk Markovitz, Pierrette Fleutiaux; and Marie-Catherine Vacher and everyone at Actes Sud.
A grateful thank-you to all those who read and commented on, or otherwise helped with, the novel, my author photos, or my Web site – B. A., T. B., Pamela Buchbinder, D. B., Maria Dizzia, Henry Dunow, Hampton Fancher, Jason Furman, Russ Galen, Eve Gerber, Michael Glass, Susanna Green, Brandt Goldstein, Mohsin Hamid, Lisa Hamilton, D. K., Geoff Kloske, Dahlia Lithwick, Joanne Mariner, Jessica O’Connell, F. P., Garth Patil, Josh Pashman, C. P., Gretchen Rubin, Melanie Thernstrom, W. T., K. W., Amy Zalman, and Seth Zalman. Thank you also to my colleagues at FindLaw.com, Diahann Reyes and Kent Williams, who were unfailingly kind and understanding throughout.
Thanks, finally, to the friends who supported me through three long years of writing; to my father; and to my mother, in memory and always.