Acknowledgments

Thanks to my editor, Andra Miller, and Algonquin Books. Thanks to Carrie Howland and Donadio & Olson.

Thanks to Colum McCann, Peter Carey, and the faculty and students of Hunter College’s MFA program. Thanks to Bill Cheng, Tennessee Jones, Brianne Kennedy, Sunil Yapa, and Carmiel Banansky.

Thanks to the Lower Manhattan Community Council’s Workspace Residency; Johnson State College, Green Mountains Review support, and Jacob White and Barbara Murphy; and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the many good friends and readers found there.

Thanks to the Weeksville Heritage Center and my co-workers there: Jennifer Scott, Jennifer Steverson, Kadrena Cunningham, Elissa Blount-Moorehead, Emily Bibb, Veronica Gallardo, Lauren Monsein-Rhodes, and Robin Cloud.

Thanks to Sarah Schulman and Alexander Chee.

Thanks to Laylah Ali.

Thanks to Deborah Reck, Arthur Unobsky, Ann Kinchla, Sheila Pundit, and the Writers’ Express. Thanks to Aaron Zimmerman, Rose Gorman, and the staff and volunteers at New York Writers’ Coalition.

Thanks to Molly Brown, Ilana Zimmerman, Lana Wilson, Margaret Garret and the Garret family, Ross Middleton, Michael J. Palmer, Rebecca Sills, and the many other friends who continually encouraged this project.

Thanks to Kirsten Greenidge, Kerri Greenidge, Ron Nigro, Katia Greenidge-Nigro, Hunter Greenidge-Nigro, Romi, Timo and Sophia Kielnecker, David Dance, Suzanne Dance, Kwame Dance, Tyron Dance, Eric Davis, Candace Corbie-Davis, Fidel Corbie-Davis, Che Corbie-Davis, Antoinette Cezair, Corryn Shaw, and Patricia Davis.

And finally, thanks to my mother, Ariel Greenidge.