Thank you to Ivy Drexel, Helen Everbach, Sarah Geselowitz, Abigail Holtzman, Christina Labows, Grace Leonard, Lena Lofgren, Kimberlyn McClendon, Julia Penn, Anna Rasmussen, Erik Rasmussen, and Valerie Shea for comments on an earlier draft. Thank you to Barry and Robert Furrow for discussing so many points with me. Thank you to Trinity College Dublin for a Long Room Hub Fellowship in spring–summer 2012 to work on this novel. Thank you to Damian McManus of Trinity College Dublin for help on the Old Gaelic, particularly the proverb at the end of chapter one. And a huge thank-you to my editorial team, Sylvie Frank and Paula Wiseman, both so quietly effective and so sweetly encouraging.