ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
I’d like to thank my parents, Bill and Mary Jetter, and my sister, Madeleine Jetter, for always providing a force of quiet yet unyielding support. I owe a tremendous amount to all the teachers who have helped me along the way, but most especially Bruce Bauman, for being such a consistent and dedicated mentor, Steve Erickson, for offering boundless inspiration, and to Aimee Bender and T.C. Boyle, for nurturing my initial desire to write and giving me the confidence to keep doing it. To the early readers, including Sara Finnerty and my other peers at CalArts, Blake Hennon, and Kim Samek, thank you for saving me from the vacuum. I am forever indebted to my wonderful agent, Judy Heiblum, and to Eric Obenauf and Eliza Wood-Obenauf, for being the best editors I could have hoped to work with. In no particular order, I must also express my gratitude to Kimby Caplan, Pete Larsen, Kelli McDonald, Heather Owen, Orli Low, CalArts and
Black Clock. And finally, I could not have written this book without the love and encouragement of my husband, Abraham Kinney.