Early Warning

ALSO BY JANE SMILEY

Fiction

Some Luck

Private Life

Ten Days in the Hills

Good Faith

Horse Heaven

The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton

Moo

A Thousand Acres

Ordinary Love and Good Will

The Greenlanders

The Age of Grief

Duplicate Keys

At Paradise Gate

Barn Blind

Nonfiction

The Man Who Invented the Computer

Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

A Year at the Races

Charles Dickens

Catskill Crafts

For Young Adults

Gee Whiz

Pie in the Sky

True Blue

A Good Horse

The Georges and the Jewels

The Langdons

Walter Langdon (1895)

Wilmer Langdon—Walter's father

Elizabeth Chick—Walter's mother

Ruth Cheek and Lester Chick—Walter's maternal grandparents

Etta Cheek—mother of Ruth Cheek

Lester and Howard—Walter's brothers

Rosanna Vogel Langdon (1900)—
Walter's wife

Otto Vogel—Rosanna's father

Mary Augsberger—Rosanna's mother

Charlotta Kleinfelder—Otto's mother

Herman
n
and Augustina Augsberger (“Opa” and “Oma”)—Rosanna's maternal grandparents

Rolf, Eloise, John, Gus, and Kurt—Rosanna's siblings

Julius Silber—Eloise's husband

Rosa—Eloise and Julius's daughter

Elton Jackman—Rosa's first husband, Lacey's father

Lacey—Rosa and Elton's daughter

Ross—Eloise's second husband

Shelia—John's wife

Gary, Buddy, Jimmy—John and Sheila's sons

Angela—Gus's wife

Francis “Frank” Langdon
—first child of Walter and Rosanna

Hildegarde Andrea Bergstrom “Andy”—Frank's wife

Janet—Frank and Andy's eldest daughter

Jared Nelson—Janet's husband

Emily—Janet and Jared's daughter

Richard “Richie”
and
Michael—Frank and Andy's twin sons

Ivy—Richie's wife

Loretta Perroni—Michael's wife

Chance, Tia, Beatrice “Binky”—Michael and Loretta's children

Joseph “Joe” Langdon
—second child of Walter and Rosanna

Lois Frederick—Joe's wife

Roland and Lorena Frederick—Lois's parents

Minnie—Lois's sister

Ann “Annie” and Joseph “Jesse”—Joe and Lois's children

Jennifer Guthrie—Jesse's wife

Joseph “Guthrie” and Franklin Perkins “Perky”—Jesse and Jennifer's sons

Mary Elizabeth Langdon
—third child of Walter and Rosanna

Lillian Elizabeth Langdon
—fourth child of Walter and Rosanna

Arthur Brinks Manning—Lillian's husband

Sarah Cole DeRocher and Colonel Brinks Manning—Arthur's parents

Timothy “Timmy,” Deborah “Debbie,” Dean Henry, and Christina Eloise “Tina”—Lillian and

Arthur's children

Hugh—Debbie's husband

Carlie and Kevin “Kevvie”—Debbie and Hugh's children

Linda—Dean's wife

Eric—Dean and Linda's son

Henry
—fifth child of Walter and Rosanna

Claire
—sixth child of Walter and Rosanna

Paul Darnell—Claire's husband

Grayson and Bradley—Claire and Paul's sons