This book is dedicated to a confederate of amazing and necessary people who have no idea that they constitute a group:
Steven Barclay, Jill Bialosky, Jill Ciment, Eliza Fischer, Amy Gerstler, Matthew Grover, Jeff Hammond, Sloan Harris, Bill Haugse, Heather Karpas, Tom Knechtel, Dinah Lenney, Brian Miller, Phranc, Mark Pinkosh, Kit Rachlis, Alice Sebold, Rebecca Schultz, Louise Steinman, George Stoll, Sallie Tisdale, Douglas Trazzare, and Benjamin Weissman