ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks to my agent, Danya Kukafka, for bringing clarity to every page written here; the team at Trellis agency; my editors—Emily Bell at Zando in New York City, Kiara Kent at Doubleday Canada in Toronto, and Joanna Lee at Atlantic Books in London; and all their colleagues for their attention and contributions in bringing this book out into the world.

Thanks to Deborah Campbell, Maureen Medved, and Linda Svendsen for their guidance during my early steps as a writer. Thanks to Carole Maso and Thalia Field for their faith in the experimental, for helping me find meaning in my broken words.

To my parents and sister for their love.