Acknowledgments
I want especially to thank Mary Anne Burghart, who taught me to love plants; Fred Jackson, who taught me about them; and Dave Schlosser, who taught me I could grow the damn things in the first place. I’m also grateful to Mary Kittredge, Mark J. McGarry, Joel Rosenberg, Victoria Schochet, and of course, my wife, Kim Tchang. They all read this novel in manuscript and what they said about it helped me make it better than it would otherwise have been.