Acknowledgments
The author is grateful to her weekly writers group for kindness and criticism during the w
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99lib.nethen Schields, Amy Hempel, Jennifer Barth, and my family in China and America. And a www.99lib.netthousand flowers each to three people whom I have had the joy and the luck to know: myhttp://www•99lib.net editor, Faith Sale, for her belief in this book; my agent, Sandra Dijkstra, for saving my li
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fe; and my teacher, Molly Giles, who told me to start over again and then patiently guided me to the end.