Acknowledgments

First, a great round of gratitude and applause for Pamela Malpas, agent extraordinaire, insightful reader, and dear friend.

Many thanks to Danielle Perez, who inherited this project and brought to it her enviable editorial skills. She brought out the best in this novel.

Thanks too to supportive amigas and early readers Cami Ostman, Pam Helberg, Victoria Doerper, Tele Aadsen, and Connie Feutz. Grateful to Andrea Gabriel for website design.

A belated thanks for a long-ago delightful evening to Bob and Phyllis Joseph, who shared their Malibu memories.

Merci mille fois to my son Brendan for taking the time to drive me many places I needed to see, and to my son Bear for musical insight.

Lifelong gratitude to my mother, who shares the dedication of this book. She typed my novels—many drafts over many years. She has been my inspiration, and I like to think now that she is writing her memoirs, I have the opportunity to be her inspiration.

About the Author

Author photo by Jolene Hanson

Laura Kalpakian has won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers’ Award, the Anahid Literary Award for an American writer of Armenian descent, the PEN West Award, and the Stand International Short Fiction Competition. She has had residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Montalvo Center for the Arts, and Hawthornden Castle in Scotland. She is the author of multiple novels and over a hundred stories published in collections, anthologies, literary journals, and magazines in the US and the UK. A native of California, Laura lives in the Pacific Northwest.

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