This novel would not be alive without the help and interventions from Dagmawi Woubshet and Zerihun Birehanu who helped me listen to the Tizita with my heart; Layla Mohamed and Bibi Bakare-Yusuf for pushing me to the porous borders of my imagination; and to the many (my family included) who let me sink into the Tizita world. I have never believed we write alone. This is a chorus.