Acknowledgments

I’d like to thank the following people, without whom Noah Boyd would never have been born:

My agent, Esther Newberg,

who never allowed me to consider failure a possibility

My editor, David Highfill,

who is the best possible person

to be with in the literary trenches

And the rest of the good people at William Morrow:

Danielle Bartlett

Mike Brennan

Lynn Grady

Tavia Kowalchuk

Shawn Nicholls

Gabe Robinson

Sharyn Rosenblum

Liate Stehlik