Acknowledgments

My thanks and love, first and foremost, to my family—to my mother, who read to me; to my father, who brought me books; to my sister and brothers as partners in crime and dearest friends; to my little rascals; and to grandparents who opened the world to all of us. My thanks and love, too, to those friends who have become family and who have been my light in dark places, and to those mentors who have stepped into my life and given light to my path. And many thanks, of course, to those whose time and talents have transformed a manuscript into a book. Merci à tous.