Just One Day 02: Just One Year (23 page)

Acknow
ledgments

A novelist is a thief by necessity. I would first like to apologize to and then thank all of the people I’ve met over the years in my travels and in my life, whose bits and pieces I’ve stolen, disguised, and put in this book. There are too many of you to list, and I don’t even know if I remember everyone’s names. But I remember them just the same. People you meet for a day really can inspire you in ways you might not recognize until, decades later, a tiny piece of them gets plunked into a novel.

For all those who knowingly helped me with this great big hodgepodge of an internationally globetrotting book, a heartfelt thank you, merci, bedankt, gracias,
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, and obrigada. Specifically to: Jessie Austrian, Fabiola Bergi, Michael Bourret, Libba Bray, Sarah Burnes, Heleen Buth, Mitali Dave (and parents), Danielle Delaney, Céline Faure, Fiasco Theater Company, Greg Forman, Lee and Ruth Forman, Rebecca Gardner, Logan Garrison, Tamara Glenny, Marie-Elisa Gramain, Tori Hill, Ben Hoffman, Marjorie Ingall, Anna Jarzab, Maureen Johnson, Deborah Kaplan, Isabel Kyriacou, E. Lockhart, Elyse Marshall, Tali Meas, Stephanie Perkins, Mukesh Prasad, Will Roberts, Philippe Robinet, Leila Sales, Tamar and Robert Schamhart, William Shakespeare, Deb Shapiro, Courtney Sheinmel,
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, Andreas Sonju, Emke Spauwen, Margaret Stohl, Julie Strauss-Gabel, Alex Ulyett, Robin Wasserman, Cameron and Jackie Wilson, Ken Wright, and the whole team at Penguin Young Readers Group. It takes a village—in this case, a global one.

And finally, thank you to Nick, Willa, and Denbele: My family. My home.