As always, I’m grateful for my family for their love and support: my husband, Lee Slonimsky; my daughter, Maggie Vicknair; my stepdaughter, Nora Slonimsky; and her partner, Jeremy Levine. I am thankful to count so many friends as family. Thank you to Wendy Rossi Gold for reading everything from the beginning and Ethel Wesdorp for thinking up the title.
And lastly, I couldn’t have written this book without the good people of Family of Woodstock, most especially Tamara Cooper, Susan Carroll, Ron Van Warmer, Deanne-Harriet Hoffman, Alan Rovitzky, Gayle Jamison, Nancy Meyer, Micheil Cannistra, and Sharon DeVries. Thank you for showing me that there’s no limit to how far we can extend the circle of family.
About the Author
CAROL GOODMAN is the critically acclaimed author of twenty novels, including The Widow’s House, winner of the 2018 Mary Higgins Clark Award, and The Seduction of Water, which won the 2003 Hammett Prize. Her books have been translated into sixteen languages. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her family and teaches writing and literature at SUNY New Paltz and The New School.
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