Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This is above all a novel about love, and the outpouring of affection qua editing that came from friends was profoundly moving to me. First and foremost, I must thank the close readers of every draft: Amanda Smithson, Katherine Keenum, James Wood, Mary Marks, and Maggie Robbins each plowed through version after version. Others gave wonderfully close responses to single drafts: Fran Kiernan, Jane Mendelsohn, Betsy Joly de Lotbinière, Julie Sheehan, Christian Caryl, Dorothy Arnsten, Claudia Swan, Brian D’Amato, Claire Messud, Rachel Eisler, James Meyer, Thomas Caplan, Dana Cowin, Sue ­Macartney-Snape, Harold Bloom, Lydia Phelps Stokes Katzenbach, Michael Lee, Talcott Camp and Carl Halvorson. Howard and David Solomon both read this closely, provided useful critical suggestions, and supported me in the writing of a story that was not without pain for them. There are three people who deserve particular thanks for giving me a vision that is at the heart of this book: Maggie Robbins, Sue Macartney-Snape, and Talcott Camp. They have been better friends than I deserve. Finally, I must thank Carolina Sherman Salguero, the bravest soldier of them all, who lived through all the terrible moods of this undertaking, and managed not to give up on me despite them. Without her, I would never have been happy enough to be able to write this book.

As a new edition of the book comes out, I would like to thank my steadfast agent, Andrew Wylie, and my remarkable editor, Nan Graham. I would also like to thank my husband, John Habich Solomon, who turned out to be the “someone who cares” to whom the mother in this novel refers.

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ANDREW SOLOMON is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and many other awards, and The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of fourteen awards, including the 2001 National Book Award. Solomon’s work is published in twenty-two languages. He is a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Cornell University and Special Adviser on LGBT Affairs to Yale University’s Department of Psychiatry.

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