I’d like to thank Drake Johnson, who gave me a crash course on courtrooms and who has been so supportive of this novel, and Mark Meredith, who helped me think things through. Thank you to my friends and readers: Hope Resor Bruens, Lisa Hinsley, Sergei Boissier, as well as Liz Goldenberg, who reminded me (among other things) of the geography of my childhood home. I am very grateful for Paul Sweeten’s valuable attention to the manuscript. I am incredibly grateful to Lettice Franklin at Fourth Estate in the United Kingdom. Susan Estelle Jansen always causes me to write more truly and was an essential reader of early drafts. I could not have done without the thoughtful, sound advice of my editor, Nan Talese, to whom I am grateful for the work not only on this novel, but on so many before it. Finally, I’ve dedicated the book to my daughter, Imo, who keeps me current and makes me think.