A Permanent Member of the Family

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Some of these stories were first published in the following periodicals: Conjunctions (“A Permanent Member of the Family”); Esquire (“The Outer Banks”); Harper’s (“Christmas Party”); Libération (“Lost and Found,” translated by Pierre Furlan); Narrative (“Lost and Found”); Salmagundi (“Big Dog”); Yale Review (“Blue,” “Transplant”).

“The Invisible Parrot” was first published in Fighting Words (Dublin, 2012), a limited-edition anthology edited by Roddy Doyle.