Acknowledgments

I want to thank Jos Lavery and Christian Brown for answering an unending barrage of text messages asking for their opinions on every change, no matter how minor, I made to this manuscript, like two extremely tolerant optometry patients—“Is this one better? Or is this one better?” There are no two people whose literary judgment I prize more, and this book has been immeasurably improved thanks to their thoughtful criticism.

Thanks are also due to my editor, Libby Burton, whose careful attention to detail at every stage of the publishing process has been a great relief and a help to me. I am especially grateful to my longtime agent, Kate McKean, who has only ever praised my successes, corrected my errors, and made me money. I wish everyone in the world were like her.