ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My thanks to the following people: Alana White and Madeena Nolan, pals and fellow travelers; Ren White, the most enthusiastic first reader ever

Ramona Davidson, my Trail ofTears guide Shiela Wood-Navarro, Spanish linguist and tennis partner extraordinaire

My agent Heide Lange, and her most capable assistant, Esther Sung

Dolores Dwyer for her superb copyediting And to Kate Miciak, who devilishly put the last kink in this rope