Special thanks go to Familie Ernst and its spin-off, Familie Wedelborg-Witt; my mother Marion “Meine Küche ist deine Küche” Raedisch; the New Providence Memorial Library for their interlibrary loan service and pleasant views from the study tables; Louise Wheeler for fielding all those Swedish questions at five o’ clock in the morning; Ursula Raedisch for photographic interface transmittability; editor Elysia Gallo for taking a chance on an unpublished, unagented writer all those years ago; and to Brian Raedisch for taking me all those places where only elves and inquisitive little rat children go.