And lastly, thank you to my daughter, Isme. This whole journey has been for you. I hope you never read this novel, but when you are fifty and really want to, I will give you a heavily redacted version. I love you forever, my tenacious, silly, brilliant little girl. You were the catalyst to get me to write again. It took me writing about a girl who was a liar to rediscover my truth as a writer.
I’ gonna cry
