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“Auditory Brain Development in Premature Infants: The Importance of Early Experience,” by Erin McMahon, Pia Wintermark, and Amir Lahav, published in
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
, April 2012.

 

“Into the Tornado,” one of Discovery Channel's
Storm Chasers
videos, featuring Reed Timmer.

 

“The Cloud Factories: Power, Pollution and the Internet,” by James Glanz, published in the
New York Times
, September 22, 2012.

 

Freaks of the Storm: From Flying Cows to Stealing Thunder: The World's Strangest True Weather Stories
, by Randy Cerveny (New York: Basic Books, 2005).

 

The Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator,
http://www.enneagraminstitute.com/
.

 

“Parental Desensitization to Violence and Sex in Movies,” a study conducted by the Annenberg Center for Public Policy at the University of Pennsylvania,
Pediatrics
134, no. 5 (2014).

 

Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia,
by Stephen Bertman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).

 

Maggie and Mark take liberties throughout, quoting (and misquoting) the following writers:

 

Wordsworth (specifically, “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood”)

 

St. Augustine (“the bleak little minute of irrational sadness”)

 

Thomas Hobbes (“nasty, brutish, and short”)

 

Arthur Schopenhauer (“Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills” and “Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.”)

THANKS TO

My dear friends Mark Rader and Maggie Vandermeer, who loaned me their perfect names

 

Ben Warner, who has now read every novel I've written—good or bad—and has advised me honestly throughout

 

Andrew Ewell, my husband, for his epic advice and constant confidence

 

Helen Atsma, for bringing this novel to life

 

Maria Massie, for shepherding it to its final home

 

Everyone who has ever encouraged me (the list is long, but you know who you are)

 

Bookstores and booksellers everywhere (this list is longer)

 

And, finally, you—the reader: thank you for reading . . .

About the Author
 

H
ANNAH
P
ITTARD
is the author of the novels
Reunion
and
The Fates Will Find Their Way
. Her stories have appeared in the
American Scholar
,
McSweeney's
, and other publications. She is the winner of the 2006 Amanda Davis Highwire Fiction Award, a MacDowell Colony Fellow, and a consulting editor for
Narrative
. She teaches fiction in the MFA program at the University of Kentucky.

 
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