Thanks also to Mikaela Vidmar-Perrins, for her invaluable fact-checking and question-answering.
As always, such gratitude to my mom, Patricia Abbott, for all her support and, in the last few years, bravery and resilience. And to my stalwart family: Josh Abbott, Julie Nichols, and Kevin Abbott, without whom, and to the Nases: Jeff, Ruth, Steve, Michelle, Marley, and Austin.
And I’m forever in debt to genius and muse Alison Quinn, to Darcy Lockman, and to Lisa Lutz. And heart-in-throat gratitude to Jack Pendarvis and my beloved Oxford, Mississippi, friends: Theresa Starkey, Ace and Angela Atkins, Bill and Katie Boyle, and Jimmy Cajoleas.
And to Dan Conaway, to whom I owe the whole enchilada.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Megan Abbott is the award-winning author of ten novels, including Give Me Your Hand, You Will Know Me, The Fever, Dare Me, and The End of Everything. She received her PhD in literature from New York University. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Guardian, and The Believer. She is the co-creator and executive producer of USA's adaptation of Dare Me and was a staff writer on HBO's David Simon show The Deuce. Abbott lives in New York City.