Corner of the Dead

Acknowledgments

A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S I am most grateful to the gentle people of Gatazo Zambrano, Chimborazo Province, Ecuador. Especially the family Rea Cuvi and the young girl I once knew there (a ti un abrazo fuerte). On this side of the equator I wish to thank Sylvia Karasu and Harvey Klein for watching over me; my teacher, Terese Svoboda, a most gifted writer and tireless reader; Noy Holland for reminding me of the unspoken bonds between the living; and to all the many who gave me back my son, but especially the one who came the day before Thanksgiving bearing rocks, Oliver Sacks. And to the three people who keep me moored to this earth: Andrew, Barnett, and Franny Koven. LYNN LURIE, a resident of New York City, is an attorney with a Masters in International Affairs and a Masters in Fine Arts. She is a graduate of Barnard College and Columbia University . Lurie served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador (1980–82), during which time she procured funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development to build a factory in the highlands. On return to the United States she covered Ecuador, Panama, and Colombia for Business International, primarily as a financial reporter. She currently volunteers as a translator and administrator on medical trips to South America which provide surgery free of charge to indigent children. As an attorney Lurie has worked in Newark, N.J., at a community development corporation providing low income Section 8 housing under the Clinton administration. She has worked in the private sector, among other things on an initiative to repatriate Indian lands in the State of New Jersey to the Delaware Indians and in commercial transactions. T H E J U N I P E R P R I Z E This volume is the third recipient of the Juniper Prize for Fiction, established in 2004 by the University of Massachusetts Press in collaboration with the UMass Amherst MFA Program for Poets and Writers, to be presented annually for an outstanding work of literary fiction. Like its sister award, the Juniper Prize for Poetry established in 1976, the prize is named in honor of Robert Francis (1901–1987), who lived for many years at Fort Juniper, Amherst, Massachusetts. T H E J U N I P E R P R I Z E ...