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I’d like to thank the Society of Authors for kindly allowing me to quote from Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. I’d also like to acknowledge the Cahuilla people of California, whose Climbing the Mountain folk tale Silas recounts for Missy and the boy with no name.
And thank you so much Yehrin Tong for creating a cover design that so intuitively and gorgeously captures the spirit of the novel.
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