Mine takes place in a dilapidated Victorian in a rainy, northwestern town, where a good day smells like blackberries turning fat and moist on the vine, and a bad day smells like the ghosts of rancid pulp drifting east from the mill. Most of all I want to thank David Wolf, the only man in the world who would stay up all night reading an early draft of this aloud, keeping me well-stocked in Kleenex when the chapters were awful and seeing beauty before it was even there.ĬHAPTER 3: The Sex Queen of Fanny’s Barbecue PalaceĬHAPTER 15: The Garden of Earthly DelightsĬHAPTER 16: One More Dance Before the ApocalypseĮveryone has a summer that changes them forever. Harvey Anderson and Colville Melody for their inspiration. Boyle, John Rechy and Tristine Rainer my colleagues at Mendocino College for their ongoing support my students, who teach me so much about writing daily Tommy Zurhellen for years of rock-solid writerly encouragement and friendship Ted O’Callahan, for reminding me during early drafts that fiction isn’t just about wish fulfillment Chris Herrod and Dexter Johnson for their guidance in my luthier research Arlan Lackie, Kathryn Stevenson, M. Thanks to: Ed Gehrman, Sherry Garner and Jamie Gehrman-Selby for lifelong love and support my agent, Dorian Karchmar, for her sharp eye and spot-on instincts Barbara Lowenstein for giving me a chance my editor, Margaret Marbury, and her team at Red Dress for their hip sensibilities and professionalism Tania Hannan for editing out every “throbbing clitoris” and thus saving me from infinite shame my teachers, most notably Patti Reeves, Carolyn Moore, Carol Guess, Gina Nahai, David Scott Milton, T.
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To avoid such a nightmare, I’ll try to be snappy. There have been so many indispensable people who have helped me, I’m afraid I’ll drag on and on like the worst of Academy Award winners. One of my favorite shower fantasies while I was working on this book involved mentally composing this page.
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And if Anna's new friends do drugs, read her journal and leave open a few too many bedroom doors, who's to say they aren't real friends? And if Anna has feelings for Arlan, who's to say where her loyalty lies?During a single summer's worth of days, gin-soaked and colored with longing, Anna rediscovers her senses, shut down since her father's death, and finds that the only way to get free of her past is to embrace it. Soon she's living on his sofa, hanging out with his girlfriend–having friends for the first time, even. Twenty-five-year-old Anna–restless, famished and emotionally numb–is following the long-cold trail of her father, a celebrated luthier, whose death has always haunted her.She's tracked his former business partner to a sailboat on Bellingham Bay, determined to pry from the old man the secrets of their guitarmaking trade, and maybe a few answers about her father.Anna catches an echo of her musical father in Arlan, guitar player for a local band.