Walking on the Ceiling

by Aysegül Savas

  Thank you, Zach, for every afternoon coffee; for the photographs.

  For your support and generosity over the years, my Tepoztlán family: Magda, Janet, Anneke, Adriaan, Doug, Rebecca, Kavita.

  Thank you, Jonathan, for the first encouragement and for all the walks.

  To Guernica magazine, for publishing an early chapter of this book.

  To the books and their writers who showed me the way: Elizabeth Strout, Enrique Vila-Matas, Patrick Modiano, Georgi Gospodinov, Marilynne Robinson.

  İsmihan, Püren hala, Dede, Anneanne, Babaanne, Attila abi, Sergei Sergeevich and Dieuwke, thank you for your stories.

  To my parents, Neşe and Serdar, thank you for your love and belief. Thank you, also, for sharing your memories.

  To my first reader, Maks. For everything.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Ayşegül Savaş grew up in Turkey and Denmark. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, Guernica, and elsewhere, and was shortlisted for the Glimmer Train Fiction Prize and the Graywolf Emerging Writers Award. She has an MFA from the University of San Francisco. She teaches at the Sorbonne and lives in Paris.

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