And finally, I mined my own experience for Joey’s unlikely career transition. Like Joey, I was a lawyer at a large law firm, and I quit my job the year I’d go up for partnership to travel and work on creative pursuits. (Although, unlike Joey, the firm I worked at was wonderful and the people I worked with even more so.)

Joey isn’t me, of course, but so much of me is in this book. As a writer, the delight I find in fiction is in collecting the truest things I know and shapeshifting them into a story. I feel privileged you chose to read mine.

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