Gold Fame Citrus

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This novel is indebted to too many books, films, artists, and writers to list, but the following deserve specific acknowledgment: The Control of Nature by John McPhee, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian by Wallace Stegner, Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner,The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan, The American Religion by Harold Bloom, Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer, Demon Camp by Jennifer Percy, The Art of Dowsing by Richard Webster, Into Eternity directed by Michael Madsen, and Picture Me directed by Ole Schell and Sara Ziff.

Billy Dunn’s sermon on sulfur is based on that by Pastor Deacon Fred of Landover Baptist Church, entitled “Friends in Christ, Do You Have Demons in Your Colon?” Ray’s poetic influences are K. A. Hays & Will Schutt. Jimmer’s homeopathic remedies are informed by pamphlets on the topic published by the Aurand Press of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Luz’s rooty epiphanies about nature imagery are inspired by the artwork of Anna Kell.

Finally, my sincere gratitude for the expertise of Ben Marsh, Chris Helvey and Henry Brean, and for generous support from the Creative Writing Program at Princeton University and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.