What Belongs to You (21 page)
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Authors: Garth Greenwell
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It has been a privilege to spend the last two years at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Thank you to Connie Brothers, Deb West, Jan Zenisek, and Kelly Smith. I’m grateful to Lan Samantha Chang for her generous and brilliant teaching, and to the members of her Fall 2013 novel workshop, especially Micah Stack, Novuyo Rosa Tshuma, and D. Wystan Owen. Work on this book was supported by an Iowa Arts Fellowship and a Richard E. Guthrie Memorial Fellowship; many thanks to the University of Iowa and the Guthrie family for their generosity.
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For advice and encouragement, thank you to Elizabeth Frank, Kyle Minor, Peter Cameron, Elizabeth Kostova, Honor Moore, Paul Whitlatch, Margot Livesey, Robert Boyers, and Stephen McCauley. For the inspiration of their teaching and example, thank you to Frank Bidart, Kevin Brockmeier, Carolyn Forché, Carl Phillips, Jorie Graham, and James Longenbach. For pointing me toward a title, thank you to Meredith Kaffel. For checking my Bulgarian, thank you to Maria Manahova and Boian Popunkiov.
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For reading first and final drafts, thank you to Mary Rakow, Ilya Kaminsky, and Ricardo Moutinho Ferreira.
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It is impossible to imagine my life without Alan Pierson and Max Freeman, my chosen family. Finally, thank you to Luis Muñoz,
por una canción largamente esperada
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Garth Greenwell
is the author of
Mitko
, which won the 2010 Miami University Press Novella Prize and was a finalist for the Edmund White Debut Fiction Award and a Lambda Award. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, he holds graduate degrees from Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he was an Arts Fellow. His short fiction has appeared in
The Paris Review
and
A Public Space
.
What Belongs to You
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First edition, 2016
Part I of
What Belongs to You
was originally published, in a very different form, as a novella,
Mitko
, in June 2011 by the Miami University Press.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Greenwell, Garth.
What belongs to you: a novel / Garth Greenwell. — First edition.
pages; cm
ISBN 978-0-374-28822-8 (hardcover) — ISBN 978-0-374-71318-8 (ebook)
1. Gay men—Fiction. 2. Americans—Bulgaria—Fiction. 3. Psychological fiction. I. Title.
PS3607.R4686 W48 2015
813'.6—dc23
2015003932
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