Acknowledgments

I’d like to express my gratitude to those who contributed to this book: Dan Smetanka, my tireless and talented editor; my invaluable agent Elizabeth Sheinkman; the generous friends who read anywhere from one chapter to numerous drafts— Merrill B. Feitell, Ellen Umansky Heather Clay, Halle Eaton, Matthew Rooney Tanya Larkin, and Caroline Wallace; and especially my husband, Derek Buckner, for talking it all out. And finally, for years of good stories and so much more, to Judy and Stuart Hershon, my parents.