It is my blessing, my joy, and my honor to call Molly Friedrich and Amy Einhorn mine. Thank you, thank you to you both from the top, middle, and bottom of my heart.
Thank you too to Lucy Carson, Alix Kaye, Kent Wolf, and Nichole LeFebvre; to Bob Miller, Caroline Bleeke, Marlena Bittner, Amelia Possanza, Liz Keenan, Ben Tomek, Molly Fonseca, Karen Horton, Emily Mahon, Steven Seighman, Kerry Nordling, Marta Fleming, David Lott, Lisa Davis, Rachelle Mandik, Stacy Shirk, Martin Quinn, and all the amazing people at Flatiron Books I am only just getting to know and am thrilled to be working with; to Marion Donaldson, Vicky Palmer, Caitlin Raynor, Hannah Wann, and everyone at Headline Books, and to all the wonderful teams working on editions around the world; to Jennie Shortridge, Katherine Malmo, Julianna Baggott, Karen Hogue, Preecha “Ping” Jokdee, Songsri “Ling” Jiwarattanawong, Barbara Catlin, Clare Meeker, Kevin O’Brien, Andrea Dunlop, Jeff Umbro, Garth Stein, Maria Semple, Elizabeth George, Ruth Ozeki, Marion Donaldson, Hedgebrook, and extra piles of thanks to Carol Cassella, novelist and physician extraordinaire, who is the only reason I am at all able to write about doctors.
Thank you to my parents, Sue and Dave Frankel, who have so totally supported this, me, and mine always. Thank you to Dani who is, in so many ways, an inspiration: I am so proud of you. Thank you (the underest of understatements) to Paul (the greatest of humans) for more wonderful things than I can name (or even have names for).