Acknowledgments

If I list my thanks to all who have played a role in my life and in the writing of this novel, it would fill the pages of a book. How far back does one go? It frightens me to think I will have missed someone, however small their contribution, both positive and negative, that made this book, made me…

However, I must thank my publishers Mosaic Press, especially Howard Aster and Matthew Goody who have put in so much work to bring this book to readers, taking their role as a publisher with such dedication and above all sharing a respectful relationship which I am sensitive to as a writer.

Joyce Wayne, thank you for helping this process along and for your friendship.

I thank Sagorika Easwar, John Calabro and Sylvia Fraser for their friendship and reading the book and commenting on it and Caitlin Alexander for her editing which made the book so much better than the original.

I would also like to thank the Ontario Arts Council for their assistance.

Above all I thank God for staying so close to me in all I do.