Thanks more personally to Lisa Brown, Otto Handler, Charlotte Sheedy, Nancy Miller, Lauren Cerand, Suzi Young, Lilliana Elizade, Barbara Darko, and to all the wives and husbands who shared, perhaps foolishly, stories of their marriages, for what is nevertheless, of course, a work of fiction.

A Note on the Author

A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR

DANIEL HANDLER is the author of the novels All the Dirty Parts, We Are Pirates, Why We Broke Up, Adverbs, Watch Your Mouth, and The Basic Eight. As Lemony Snicket, he is responsible for many books for children, including the thirteen-volume sequence A Series of Unfortunate Events and the four-book series All the Wrong Questions. He is married to the illustrator Lisa Brown and lives with her and their son in San Francisco.