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Authors: Anne Korkeakivi
Thank you to my mother, MaryAnn, and my late father, William, and to my sisters, Alice and Caroline.
Thank you to the peerless Gail Hochman, and everyone at Brandt & Hochman.
Thank you to Judy Clain, Michael Pietsch, Nathan Rostron, and the whole wonderful team at Little, Brown.
Thank you to Alice Mattison and C. Michael Curtis.
Thank you to Mina Samuels, Eva Mekler, Laurel Zuckerman, Anita Chaudhuri, Ronna Wineberg, Louise Farmer Smith, Susan Malus, and Melanie McDonald.
Thank you to the many others who also offered valued pieces of advice, assistance, and information, including but not limited to Ian Whitehead, Jocelyn Ferguson, Sandee Roston, Tom Kennedy, Julie Metz, Nancy Woodhouse, Niamh Casey, Stef Pixner, Corinne McGeorge, and Christina Haag. Thank you, Jörg Brockmann.
I am indebted to Drue Heinz and the International Retreat for Writers at Hawthornden Castle, within whose ancient stone walls in Scotland I was fortunate enough to undertake a last revision.
Last but never least, thank you to Antti, Susanna, and Laura.
Anne Korkeakivi was born in New York City and currently lives in Geneva, Switzerland, where her husband, a human-rights lawyer, is with the United Nations. They have two daughters. Her short stories have been published by
The Yale Review, The Atlantic, The Bellevue Literary Review,
and other magazines, and she is a Hawthornden Fellow. Her nonfiction has run in numerous periodicals in the United States and Britain, including the
New York Times,
the
Wall Street Journal,
the
Times
(London),
Gourmet, Ms.,
and
Travel & Leisure.
She has also lived, among other places, in France and Finland.
The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Copyright © 2012 by Anne Korkeakivi
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ISBN: 978-0-316-19676-5