And then the crowd closed in, and Charlie was gone.
Acknowledgments
Thanks to Peter Steinberg, who has worked so hard for me and has been such a trusted advocate from the very beginning.
Kathy Pories has been so smart and patient with this book. More than an editor, she’s been a friend and collaborator, and I could not be more grateful, or feel more blessed.
Thank you, Chuck Adams, for helping me reshape my ideas about this story. Thanks to everyone at Algonquin, including Elisabeth Scharlatt, Brunson Hoole, Brooke Csuka, and Jude Grant.
Danae Woodward, as usual, read first and offered endless encouragement. Thanks to second readers, Abby Jones and Tara Thompson.
Thank you everyone in the Creative Writing Department at UNCW.
And thanks to David and Hadley, for everything, always.
NINA DE GRAMONT is the author of the story collection Of Cats and Men, which was a Book Sense selection and the winner of a Discovery Award from the New England Booksellers Association. Her first novel, Gossip of the Starlings, was also a Book Sense pick. She is coeditor of Choice, an anthology, and the author of several young adult novels. She teaches in the MFA program at the University of North Carolina–Wilmington. Visit her online at ninadegramont.com. (Author photo by Harry Taylor.)
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This is a work of fiction. While, as in all fiction, the literary perceptions and insights are based on experience, all names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
eISBN 978-1-61620-537-9
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