"Naomi Kritzer - Turning the Storm" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kritzer Naomi)

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To Ed Burke, with love and gratitude for all your support




Acknowledgments
First I'd like to thank my superb editor, Anne Groell, for helping me make this the best
book it could be. I'd also like to thank my agent, James Frenkel, and his assistant, Tracy
Berg, for their support and enthusiasm.
I'd like to thank the members of the Wyrdsmiths, past and present, for critique,
encouragement, and friendship: Bill Henry, Doug Hulick, Ralph A. N. Krantz, Harry
LeBlanc, Kate Leith, Kelly McCullough, Lyda Morehouse, and Rosalind Nelson.
 Quite a few people answered questions, helped me with research, and let me borrow
ideas. Thanks to all of them, but special thanks to Michelle Herder for historical
information; Jennifer Horn for dance steps; Geriann Brower for Italian language
consultation; and Sharon Albert and Louis Newman for Aramaic language consultation.
Any mistakes, of course, are because I failed to take the advice of my consultants.
Thank you to all of my beta readers, who read and commented on earlier versions of
this book: Ed Burke, Jason Goodman, Rick Gore, Michelle Herder, Jennifer Horn, Curtis
Mitchell, Rudy Moore, Rebecca Murray, and John Savage.
My most heartfelt thanks go to my family: Bert, Amy, Abi, and Nate Kritzer, and Ed
and Molly Burke. Molly is eighteen months old as of this writing, and helped mostly by
napping at appropriate times. Ed, on the other handтАФwell, when people ask me about
writing with a toddler in the house, I have to say that step one is to have a supportive
spouse or partner. More than just being a wonderful partner and fellow parent, though,
Ed has always taken my writing seriouslyтАФ well before I ever sold a word of it. It is a
great gift to have someone close to you who believes in your dreams, and I am grateful for
it.




PART ONE


The Life of the Land