The Orange Houses (14 page)

 

My families and super-cool mothers, JG, Matt, Kari and Billy for your excitement; Kath and Marie Mordeno for your hilarious phone calls and relentless pimping; Pop, for reading all those manuscripts gathering dust in my closet as if they weren't completely horrible, and for encouraging me with always thoughtful notes and otherworldly wisdom.

 

Risa, for making the world go 'round.

 

“Fatima,” for talking and walking with me that clear, late April day when the ginkgo buds were breaking around the Jerome Park Reservoir.

 

And

 

Robyn, for putting heart and soul into this story, teaching me what it is about and bringing so much to it, including its title; and for giving that first draft of
TMR
to Nancy and Lauri. You are a phenomenal editor and friend, and you're in my heart forever.