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draft with insight and precision, which is like a gift to an author.
    Luke Janklow is my go-to guy, literary agent by name, guardian angel by nature. I don’t know what I’d do without him, but I bet it would suck. Claire Dippel, the wind beneath Luke’s wings, can do just about anything, apparently, while remaining bright and good-natured. Almost suspiciously so. Thank you, both.
    Most of all, thank you, Jen, for making this possible. There isn’t a single piece of this that works without you. Not the book, not the writing, not me. Definitely not me.
    And, hey. You. Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That’s a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn’t read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that’s as creepy as hell. Thank you for seeking out stories, the kind that take place in your brain.

* In 1997, Stephen King rode across Australia on a Harley-Davidson.“Until you get here you don’t realize how different it is,” he told the
Kalgoorlie Miner
. “[America’s West] is empty but you always see a power line or a house twinkling off in the distance. Out here there’s fucking nothing.”