ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am grateful to my agent, Caitlin Blasdell, for her infinite pains with this book, as well as to Hannah Bowman for her comments on the manuscript.

Thank you to Diana Gill and Bella Pagan, and the fantastic teams at Berkley/Ace/Roc and Pan Macmillan.

I am amazingly fortunate in my loving, creative, plain-speaking and hilarious family. Thanks for everything, Mom, Dad, Ko and Rin.

This book could not have been written without the unfailing love and support of my husband, Peter. No writer could have a better companion. I didn’t write this book for you, but I hope you accept it anyway.

I have started a lot of stories in my life, but I might not have completed any of them if not for the belief, enthusiasm and eyeballs of my imaginary friends who live in the Internet. Thank you. You know who you are.