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Contents [With Acknowledgements]
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Contents All That Work and Still No Boys / 1 Second Child / 21 The Scottish Play / 38 For Sale By Owner / 56 Prank / 66 What I Know Now / 83 Dougie / 105 The Long Way Home / 121 Gratitude / 130 Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Wu / 142 acknowledgments For early support and encouragement, I am grateful to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. I also found abundant community at the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop. To the many teachers, fellow writers, family members, and friends who have supported me in this work, I offer thanks for your generosity and friendship. I am indebted as a reader and a writer to Holly Carver and her colleagues at the University of Iowa Press and to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Thank you to the editors of the publications in which my stories have appeared, including the following: “What I Know Now” in the Antioch Review; “Prank” in the Kenyon Review; “Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Wu” in the Portland Review; “For Sale By Owner” in Prairie Schooner; “All That Work and Still No Boys” (winner of the 2008 David Nathan Meyerson Prize for Fiction) and “Dougie” in Southwest Review; “Gratitude” in the Threepenny Review; and “The Long Way Home” in TriQuarterly. Your dedication and commitment kept my spirit alive. To my husband, Sanford Kingsley, I give daily thanks for your faith and love. ...