Acknowledgments
I would like to acknowledge and thank the following people and organizations for their moral and practical help in the writing of this book:
Sarah Fink, Celina Martinez, Karen Murphy, Rashena Wilson, Joanne Beard, Michael Zilkha, Emma Sweeney, Jean Strouse, Jennifer Sears, T. Kira Madden, Marguerite and Andres San Millan, Peter Trachtenburg, Rima Liscum, Angie Cruz, Ralph Sassone, Peter Franklin, Rene Falcon, Nancy and Catherine Locke of Hyde-Locke Stables, Renee Petruzzelli of Horse Heaven, The Southlands Foundation, The Jentel Foundation, and Ragdale.
Most especially I would like to thank Denisse De La Cruz and equestrienne Sarah Willeman: Your patient, generous help was invaluable.
I would also particularly like to thank David Weiss and Melanie Conroy-Goldman of Hobart and William-Smith Colleges for giving me more time than allotted at the Trias House, essentially providing me with a writing retreat for four months.
Finally, I am grateful to the wonderful children I met through the Fresh Air Fund. This book is not about those children, but it would never have been written if they had not been in my life.
PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
Alfred Music Publishing: Excerpt from “Wildfire,” words and music by Michael Martin Murphey and Larry Cansler, copyright © 1975 and renewed by Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of Alfred Music Publishing. All rights reserved.
Premium Latin Publishing: Excerpt from “Obsession” by Anthony “Romeo” Santos, as first performed by Aventura. Reprinted by permission of Premium Latin Publishing.
Unchained Melody Publishing, LLC: Excerpt from “Unchained Melody,” copyright © 1955 and renewed by North Melody Publishing (SESAC) and HUZUM Publishing (SESAC). Reprinted by permission of Unchained Melody Publishing, LLC. All rights reserved.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mary Gaitskill is the author of the story collections Bad Behavior, Because They Wanted To (nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award), and Don’t Cry; her novels are Two Girls, Fat and Thin and Veronica, which was nominated for the National Book Award. Gaitskill is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a New York Public Library Cullman Center research grant. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize Stories.
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