Mira Jacob - The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing

John D’Agata, for his essay “Collage History of Art by Henry Darger.”

Everyone at Building on Bond who kept me fed and caffeinated while I wrote, especially Norman Lynn Vineyard.

Andy McDowell, Dave Thrasher, all the fine folks at Pete’s Candy Store, and every single reader who ever graced our stage.

My son, for turning it up to eleven.

My father, Philip Jacob. I still see you everywhere.

As is often true in novels, historical events in this novel have been distorted, embellished, and reimagined. While the $162 million settlement for the Puyallup Tribe of Tacoma Indians was a real event, Bobby McCloud is an invented character, and his tragedy and the resulting quotes from tribe members are wholly fictional imaginings; any other resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. I do not intend to speak for the tribe or their feelings about the settlement — my interest was with the intersection of the “Indian” narratives, and what it means, as an immigrant, to make a life in a stolen country.

MIRA JACOB is the founder of Pete’s Reading Series in New York City and has an MFA from the New School for Social Research. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their son. The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing is her first novel.

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