by Greg Hrbek
Thanks to the following people and organizations: Dede Hill, Melora Wolff, and Linda Simon, for generous help with many drafts; everyone at Melville House, in particular Taylor Sperry (editor), Dennis Johnson (publisher), and Adly Elewa (artist); the Steering Committee of the Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation, and everyone associated with the Château de Lavigny International Writers’ Residence; and Kathryn Davis, whose fiction showed me a better way forward and whose faith in this book was essential to its completion.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Greg Hrbek won the James Jones First Novel award for his book The Hindenburg Crashes Nightly. His short fiction has appeared in Harper’s magazine and numerous literary journals, and in The Best American Short Stories anthology. He is writer in residence at Skidmore College.