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New York City is real, and so are Boston and Martha’s Vineyard and Radcliffe and Mass General and Cats and Les Misérables and Miss Saigon and the American Psychiatric Association and Mount Sinai Hospital and the New York City Police Department and any other civic or cultural institution mentioned herein by name.

But Kathryn Duggan and David Chapman and all of the other characters in this novel are fictitious, as is each and every narrated event.