Kapitoil

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank my deeply loyal and supportive agent, Rosalie Siegel; my astute, gracious editor, Jeanette Perez; Amy Baker, Erica Barmash, Jane Beirn, Milan Bozic, Tom Cherwin, Mary Beth Constant, Carrie Kania, Greg Kubie, Cal Morgan, and everyone else at Harper Perennial; Professors Kathryn Davis, Kathleen Finneran, Marshall Klimasewiski, and Kellie Wells and the Writing Program at Washington University in St. Louis; my readers Vaqar Ahsan, Angela Hur, Eric Lundgren, Nathaniel Popper, Brad Stoler, Greg Wayne, and especially Sarah Buishas; various editors who have given me opportunities over the years, in particular George Kalogerakis, Christopher Monks, Mike Sacks, and John Warner; Clara Boyd, Julia Boyd, Ryan Chapman, Andrew Epstein, Daniel Feiner, Maja Groff, Eileen G’Sell, Olivia Harman, Mayme Hostetter, Melissa Johnson, Jesse Lerner-Kinglake, Felix Brandon Lloyd, Catherine Meeks, Christi Mladic, Lev Moscow, Jessica Pantzer, Alex Quinlan, Lauren Schnipper, Jesse Ann Lorraine Gunderson and the rest of the Gunderson/Brady clan; and my family.