Acknowledgments

I am so lucky to have fallen in with P. B. Parris, Ann Howell, Linda Steitler, and Williamaye Jones. You have all been so giving and patient. We all know how much you have helped with this story from the very beginning and beyond.

Thank you to Chung Liu, D.L. Ellenburg, Virginia Pye, my mother Mei-jy Liu, and Jane Lee for reading the manuscript and giving thoughtful feedback or helping me to find answers to my many questions. Nathan, Alex and Eliot Boniske, thank you for all kinds of support and space you’ve provided so I could do this.

Shannon Hassan, agent and Amy Fitzgerald, editor, you both awe me with your whip-like smartness and how well you do your work. I greatly appreciate you both for taking on Girls on the Line and helping to make it a much finer novel.