Jake & Mimi

by Frank Baldwin

  Mimi holds her hand out to me. I take my hand off the wheel and close it around hers. She looks into my eyes for the first time since we left the winery.

  “A few more minutes, Jake,” she says. “Then you can drive me home.”

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  Thanks to my editor, Michael Pietsch; to his assistant, Ryan Harbage; to senior copyeditor Stephen Lamont. Thanks to my agent, Jillian Manus. Thanks to the reading group: Camille, Cyril, Jacob, Joe, Kay, Lora, Merrill, and Marcy. Thanks to David Gibson. Special thanks to my mother and father.