We are grateful to our editor, Judy Sternlight, for her numerous good turns, and to the crack production team at Random House for the superb detailing and overall beauty of the published book. We were ably assisted in our editorial work by Phillip Albonetti, Yaser Amad, Joel Dodson, Jonathan Lamb, Mary Maddox, Jennifer Nichols, Shea Suski, Natalie Tenner, Claire Fallon, Joseph Rumrich, and Amelia Kerrigan.