Thanks to Richard Parks, Andi Mudd, Katie Freeman, Jay Neugeboren, James Baldwin, Holly Robinson, Chris Ying, Steve Erickson, Tamara Straus, Michael Ray, Denise Hamilton, Jervey Tervalon, Johnny Temple, everyone at McSweeney’s who works so hard, and Dwayne Sims.
Susan Straight was born in Riverside, California. She has published seven previous novels, including A Million Nightingales and Take One Candle Light a Room, companions in this trilogy. Her novel Highwire Moon was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award.
Portions of this book appeared, sometimes in a different form, in the following publications: Black Clock, McSweeney’s Quarterly, The Sun, Zoetrope All-Story, and the anthology The Cocaine Chronicles (Akashic Books).
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