I would not have gotten through this process, or life itself, without my beloved friends. Thanks especially to Willow Belden, Ella Bennett, Nina Boutsikaris, Catherine Cushenberry, Jennifer Dolatshahi, Alex Eggerking, Miriam Gottfried, Michele Lent Hirsch, Hannah Howard, Sabine Jansen, Kyle McCarthy, Rebecca Merrill, Mike Pezley, Alice Robb, Abby Ronner, Bekah Shaughnessy, Natasja Sheriff, Jillian Steinhauer, Molly Tow, Julie Treumann, and Genevieve Walker for your conversation, laughter, and hugs.

Thank you to Matt Hunter, who nurtured me through the final phases of this process: I can hardly believe I’m lucky enough to have met you. Discovering notime with you has been one of the greatest pleasures of my life.

My family has been supportive and generous in all the ways, and I am grateful far beyond the scope of an acknowledgments section. Thank you, thank you, to my mother, Julie Gross; my father, Larry Gross; my stepmother, Jill Schuman; my grandmother, Sylvia Raynor; my brother, Andrew Gross; and my sister-in-law, Emily Ball. I love you.

About the Author

About the Author

Jessica Gross’s writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Longreads, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, among other places. Hysteria is her first novel.