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M
ANY THANKS
to everyone at Random House for all their time and effort: Caitlin McKenna, Beth Pearson, Tom Pitoniak, Robbin Schiff, Gabrielle Bordwin, Sally Marvin, Simon Sullivan, Carole Lowenstein, Laura Goldin, and in particular Susan Kamil, for her infectious enthusiasm, and David Ebershoff, for his keen eye and confidence, his eternal patience in the face of pathology.

A thank you to Marcy Drogin for her cheerleading.

Lasting thanks to Bill Clegg, friend first, everything else second.

Lifelong gratitude to my parents, Parker and Gail, as well as to Lynn and Parker.

A hug for my children, Max, Eliza, and Olivia.

And to Susie, all my love.

D
AVID
G
ILBERT
is the author of the story collection
Remote Feed
and the novel
The Normals
. His stories have appeared in
The New Yorker, Harper’s, GQ
, and
Bomb
. He lives in New York with his wife and three children.