The Lola Quartet

Acknowledgments

With thanks to my editor, Greg Michalson; to Steven

Wallace, Caitlin Hamilton Summie, Libby Jordan,

Rich Rennicks, Fred Ramey, Rachel Kinbar Grace,

and all of their colleagues at Unbridled Books;

to Kim McArthur, Devon Pool, Ann Ledden,

Kendra Martin, and their colleagues at McArthur &

Company;

to my wonderful agent, Katherine Fausset, and her colleagues at Curtis Brown;

to Sohail Tavazoie, for so graciously accommodating my book tour schedule;

to Gina Frangello, whose review of my two previous

novels on The Nervous Breakdown influenced this

work;

to Alexander Chee, for his help with titles;

to Jessica Lowery, for telling me about Chicago;

to Mandy Keifetz and Peter Geye for reading and commenting on early drafts;

and to Kevin Mandel, for being an early reader and for everything.