Джули Салливан - Friends and Strangers

I’m extremely lucky to be publishing my fifth novel in a row with Knopf and Vintage. Thanks to everyone there for everything these past ten years, especially Sara Eagle, Paul Bogaards, Christine Gillespie, Emily Reardon, Jason Gobble, Maria Massey, Kristen Bearse, Nicholas Latimer, Kate Runde Sullivan, and the late Russell Perrault and Sonny Mehta.

Thank you, Grace Han, for the gorgeous cover art. Thank you to the Book Group. To Jenny Meyer and Heidi Gall at the Jenny Meyer Literary Agency. To Jason Richman at UTA. And to Christie Hinrichs at Authors Unbound.

The members of Bococa Moms and Smithie Parents have been a source of comfort and wisdom. What happens in a closed Facebook group stays in a closed Facebook group, and all posts and replies herein are entirely fictional. Except for Jamey Borell’s comment about the dangers of doing multivariate regression analysis on the impact of eating an Oreo, because there is nothing I could come up with that would improve upon that.

Finally, thank you to my mother, M. Joyce Gallagher. She told me about the Hollow Tree, and just like George, I’ve seen it everywhere ever since.

A Note About the Author

J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN is the New York Times best-selling author of the novels Saints for All Occasions, The Engagements, Maine, and Commencement. Maine was named a 2011 Time magazine Best Book of the Year and a Washington Post Notable Book. The Engagements was one of People magazine’s Top Ten Books of 2013 and an Irish Times Best Book of the Year and has been translated into seventeen languages. Saints for All Occasions was named one of the ten best books of the year by The Washington Post, a New York Times Critics’ Pick, and a New England Book Award nominee. Sullivan has contributed to The New York Times Book Review, the Chicago Tribune, New York magazine, Elle, Glamour, Allure, Real Simple, and O: The Oprah Magazine, among many other publications. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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