My early readers nurtured this project at its most critical stages: Maria Massie, Katie Fleischer, Claire Sanders Swift, Tony Meier, Marnie Burke de Guzman, Alan Black, Heather Cappiello, Rachel Howard, Pam Bohner, D’Arcy McGrath, Dave Dederer, Elsa Dixon, Lindsey Crittenden, Audrey Ferber, Monica Wesolowska, and Arkady Shirin. I am deeply grateful for your support, and for your friendship.
I feel immense gratitude for my teachers, Tom Barbash and Julie Orringer, for initiating the spark; for my late father Eric Stroh and late brother Charlie Stroh, whose lives left deep welts, only to open channels much deeper yet; for my living brothers, Bobby Stroh and Whitney Stroh, whose early support came with characteristic humor and grace; for my mother, Gail Marentette, who not only warmed to the idea but embraced it with all her magnificence; for the rest of the Stroh family, whose tolerance knows no bounds; for Arkady Shirin, who shouted from the mountaintops that I could—and would—write this book; and most of all, for Mishka Shirin-Stroh, my son and great inspiration, who made such colossal sacrifices along the way.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
FRANCES STROH was born in Detroit and raised in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. She received her BA from Duke University and her MA from Chelsea College of Arts in London as a Fulbright Scholar. She practiced as an installation artist, exhibiting in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and London, before turning to writing. She lives in San Fransisco, California.
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