Blame: A Novel (39 page)

For their friendship, readings, and expertise, I would like to thank Mona Simpson, Carol Blake, Maxine Groffsky, Lily Tuck, Mary Corey; my agents, Scott Moyers and Sarah Chalfant; Martha Ronk, Dennis Phillips, Thaisa Frank, Laurie Winer, Lynn Dumenil, Holly Hall, Claire Nelson, Claudia Parducci, Andy Pearlman, Shelby Rector, Gordon Smith, Tracy Sullivan; the whole crew at FSG and my editor, Sarah Crichton.

I am grateful to Beverly Strohm, for her experience, strength and hope:
We do not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.

Michelle Huneven has an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. She has received a General Electric Younger Writers Award and a Whiting Writers’ Award. Her two previous novels are
Round Rock
and
Jamesland
. She lives with her husband in Altadena, California.