ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you to my agent, Mike Hoogland, for faith, enthusiasm, advice, and insight into where I needed to add and where I needed to subtract, as well as prompt replies to my anxious emails.

Thank you to my editor, Jason Katzman, for saving me from myself multiple times and helping me see the way ahead.

Thank you to my wife, Sarah, and our kids, for letting me run off for hours on end to write, rewrite, and pretend to write.

Thank you to Mom and Dad, for believing all this was possible, and for reading first drafts that were far too rough.

Thank you, Gramma, for making me rewrite that essay in high school a dozen times until it was just right. You prepared me for the last seven years.

Thank you, reader, for reading.