In the House upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

MATT BELL IS GRATEFUL TO Ryan Call, Roy Kesey, and Robert Kloss, for their generous feedback; to Aaron Burch, Elizabeth Ellen, Steven Gillis, and Dan Wickett, for their friendship and encouragement; to Bradford Morrow, Carmen Giménez Smith, David McLendon, Jason Diamond and Tobias Carroll, Catherine Chung and Meakin Armstrong, and Kate Bernheimer and Alissa Nutting, for publishing excerpts in Conjunctions, Puerto del Sol, Unsaid, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Guernica, and Fairy Tale Review; to Bronwen Hruska, Paul Oliver, Meredith Barnes, Rudy Martinez, Simona Blat, and the rest of the team at Soho Press, for their championing of this novel; to Janine Agro, Kapo Amos Ng and Sam Chung for their beautiful design and artwork; to Kirby Kim, for his invaluable advice and advocacy; to Mark Doten, whose belief and ability improved every page; and finally, but first and always, to Jessica, for her love and support.