All Aunt Hagar's Children

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am grateful—once more—to my editor, Dawn L. Davis (mother to Bijah), and to Rockelle Henderson and Jane Beirn at HarperCollins.

To Lil Coyne, Shirley Grossman, Marcia Shia, and Aslaug Johansen.

To Eric Simonoff (father of Henry and Lucy), my agent.

To Cressida Leyshon, Deborah Treisman, and David Remnick at The New Yorker.

I am especially thankful for the support and encouragement from the Lannan Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.