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Acknowledgments

So many have helped make this book possible.

From the Ohio years: Jack Hoover, Roger Gochneaur, Bill Currin and Barb McFarland—for being beams of light in those darkest of days.

To all the people in block number four in Jabaliya, especially the Elakra family and to Fayez, Bassam, Uncle Ali, Mustafa and Shafiq el Biss—for allowing me to see Gaza with my own eyes and for changing my life.

To the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers class of 2006–2007, for giving me the greatest year a writer could hope for. Thanks in particular to the following fellows for their guidance and unwavering support: Jim Shapiro, Jim Miller, Maya Jasanoff and David Blight. Also, to Jean Strouse, the glue that keeps everything together, and Pamela Leo, Adriana Nova, Betsy Bradley, Sam Swope, Miriam Gloger and David Ferriero. And to my cousins, Bill Schierberl and Margaret Pomeroy—New York is a much emptier place without you.

All those in my Boston years: the wonderful people at Grub Street, Theresa Tobin at MIT Library, AGNI, for publishing a part of this book and for the careful eye of Jennifer Alise Drew, to a couple of early readers and listeners, Dana Sadji and Reema Tambosi, and to the greatest bookstore in the world—The Harvard Coop—a sanctuary where much of this was written.

All the students, past and present, and to the faculty at Wilkes University’s Low-Residency MA/MFA Program who have provided an enormous amount of feedback and encouragement. Mike Lennon for his suggestion to bring the American into the novel; Bonnie Culver for passing this manuscript along and to three late-stage readers, Kevin Oderman, Teresa Loeffert, and Bev Donofrio.

Everyone at Etruscan Press for their care, bravery and passion for this book: Phil Brady, Bob Mooney, Bill Schneider, Pamela Turchin, Danielle Watson, Bob Antinozzi, Susan Leonard and Carey Schwartzburt.

And finally, to my mother, my father-in-law, Tadashi Toshimitsu, my wife, Aya, and son, Sam, who have also carried this book along with them for so many years.