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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My heartfelt thanks to Dan McCall, Maureen McCoy, Lamar Herrin, and Kyoko Uchida for their insightful comments and suggestions about this book. Thanks also to Stephanie Vaughn for her unbending support; Alison Lurie for providing an office and refuge; Morna Pixton for her lucky table; Patsy Cox for always believing; Johnny Temple and the folks at Akashic for their enthusiasm and commitment; and Jennifer Gilmore for raising the bar.

I’m grateful to my agent, Tim Seldes, as well as to the Saltonstall Foundation and the Astraea Foundation. I am also indebted to several historical works and their authors: Keith E. Collins, Black Los Angeles: The Maturing of the Ghetto, 1940-1950; Carolyn Kozo Cole and Kathy Kobayashi (eds.), Shades of L.A.: Pictures from Ethnic Family Albums; Warren S. Rogers, Mesa to Metropolis: The Crenshaw Area, Los Angeles; John Tateishi (ed.), And Justice For All: An Oral History of the Japanese-American Detention Camps; and Arthur C. Verge, Paradise Transformed: Los Angeles During the Second World War.

Finally, I want to express my deep gratitude to Lauren Sanders. Had she not shown up on my doorstep in L.A., needing a place to crash, this novel might never have found a home.