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Acknowledgments

Thank you:

Nicole Aragi, best imaginable agent, for your patience, encouragement, and brilliant editing.

To the folks at HarperCollins, especially Gail Winston, for your excellent sensibility as editor, and your contagious enthusiasm. Maya Ziv, for your grace and generosity as you worked on so many details. And Shelly Perron, phenomenal copy editor.

Thanks to those writers who helped me as I worked: Don Challenger, whose own writing and great humor inspired me to begin; Jane Bernstein, for ongoing support and perceptive comments on the first draft; Lawrence Wray, for reading the first draft and steering me past my blind spots, and for buying an Evvie coat; and Charlotte Daniels, for reading early on, in the middle, and then again at the end, and for giving me the gift of a week in her perfect cabin where I finished the manuscript.

Thanks also to Patrick and Patricia Tierney, who listened to the first pages of this aloud and told me to keep going, and to Cynthia Taibbi, who read the finished manuscript.

Thanks to my family and all my friends, far and near, for your invaluable support and presence in my life.

And to those who lived with me as I wrote: Patrick, for sustaining love, faith, and friendship; and Rosey and Anna, for outlandish comedy and kindness.

Finally, a heartfelt thank-
you to Drue Heinz, whose generosity and support of fiction made possible the career of so many writers, including mine.

About the Author

J
ANE
M
C
C
AFFERTY
is
author of the novel
One Heart
and two collections of
stories,
Thank You for the Music
and
Director of the World and Other Stories
, which won the
Drue Heinz Literature Prize.
She is the recipient of an NEA award, t
he Great
Lakes New Writers Award, and two Pushcart Prizes. She lives in Pittsburgh, where
she teaches at Carnegie Mellon University.

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Also by Jane McCafferty

Thank You for the Music

One Heart

Director of the World and Other Stories

Credits

Cover design by Jarrod Taylor

This book is a work of fiction. References to
real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales are intended
only to provide a sense of authenticity, and are used fictitiously. All other
characters, and all incidents and dialogue, are drawn from the author's
imagination and are not to be construed as real.

FIRST YOU TRY
EVERYTHING
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication
Data

McCafferty, Jane.

First you try everything : a novel /
by Jane McCafferty.â1st ed.

p. cm.

EPub Edition Â© January 2012 ISBN:
9780062188199

ISBN 978-0-06-621062-9 (hardback)

1. Middle-aged womenâFiction. 2.
Married peopleâFiction. 3. Identity (Philosophical concept)âFiction. 4.
Pittsburgh (Pa.)âFiction. I. Title.

PS3563.C33377F57 2012

813'.54âdc22

2011028528

12 13 14 15 16
OV
/
RRD
10 9 8 7 6
5 4 3 2 1

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