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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Special thanks to my wife, Alicia Bessette; favorite European, Liz Jensen; and editors, American Jennifer Barth and Canadian Jennifer Lambert, for reading drafts and dramatically improving this book in every way possible; my agent, Doug Stewart, for ceaselessly believing in my work and me; the entire Sterling Lord Literistic crew and all of the foreign agents/scouts; the many foreign editors who have made this book available to readers around the globe; my film agent, Rich Green; Mom; Dad, for serendipitously telling me about President Garfield’s assassination in great detail exactly when I needed to know, even though I didn’t realize how valuable the information was to this project at the time (synchronicity?); Megan; Micah; Kelly; Aaron; Grandmom Dink; Pete; Barb and Peague, for allowing me to write in the Vermont house; Bill and Mo Rhoda; Mr. Canada (aka Scott Caldwell) and family for providing delicious and nutritious food, alcohol, BeaverTails, and shelter when we researched Cat Parliament in Ottawa; Dr. Len Altamura; Peruvian Scott Humfeld; Roland Merullo; Beth and Tim Rayworth; Evan Roskos; Mark Wiltsey; Kent Green; all of the many people at HarperCollins (and at publishing houses around the world) who have worked tremendously hard to promote this book; every single fan who has ever said or written something nice about my work; and YOU, for reading
The Good Luck of Right Now
RIGHT NOW (synchronicity?). Thanks!!!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

MATTHEW QUICK
is the author of
The Silver Linings Playbook
, which was made into an Academy Award–winning film, and the young adult novels
Sorta Like a Rock Star
,
Boy21
, and
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
. He is married to the novelist-pianist Alicia Bessette.

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CREDITS

COVER DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATION BY JARROD TAYLOR

This novel is a work of fiction. Any references to real people, events, quotations, establishments, organizations, or locales are intended only to give the fiction a sense of reality and authenticity, and are used fictitiously. All other names, characters, and places, and all dialogue and incidents portrayed in this book, are the product of the author’s imagination.

THE GOOD LUCK OF RIGHT NOW
. Copyright © 2014 by Matthew Quick. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Quick, Matthew, 1973–

The good luck of right now / Matthew Quick.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-06-228553-9

ISBN 978-0-06-231669-1 (Signed Edition)

ISBN 978-0-06-232632-4 (International Edition)

1. Family life—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3617.U535G66 2014

813'.6—dc23

2013026035