by Roy Kesey
Also for love: Tom and Jane Kesey, Kelly and Dave Clark.
For technical and various other forms of support: Maria Massie, Terry Bain, Igor Kajari, Nick Otto, Jim Morris, Francis Ford Coppola, Berthana Bonsang, Sibyl MacKenzie, Rob Krott.
For bringing me things made of paper and sequins and glue: Chloë Kesey, Thomas Kesey.
For permission to reprint the parts of this book which first appeared in slightly different forms in their splendid magazines: the editors at Opium and The Florida Review.
For many things: Jim Ruland.
For many, many others things: Ivana Širović and her family.
About the Author
Roy Kesey is the author of the short story collection All Over. His work has appeared in McSweeney’s, The Kenyon Review andAmerican Short Fiction, among other magazines, as well as in Best American Short Stories 2007, New Sudden Fiction 2006 and the Robert Olen Butler Prize Anthology. He currently lives in Beijing with his wife and children.
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