“Lola,” you said, as if you were already looking into the future, “sometimes people just need to be told what they want.”
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Enormous gratitude to my agent, Jay Mandel, who has never heard a filtered thought from me in his life, and to everyone at MCD and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, especially my clear-minded editor, Sean McDonald, Jonathan Galassi, Mitzi Angel, Sheila O’Shea, and Sarita Varma. In the early pages of this novel, a character calculates the percentage of his life he will have spent knowing our heroine. It makes my heart swell, thinking of how significant that number is for many of us. Thanks also to June Park, for the phenomenal cover, and to Stephen Weil, for his tireless efforts on behalf of this book.
Thank you to my family, for their ancient and unbreakable enthusiasm, and to my extraordinary and extraordinarily supportive friends for allowing me in their midst. I adore you. I am also grateful to Yaddo for the sleepover, Scribe for the California dream, and the great city of New York forever.