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of him like a fire, but his pain would cease, and his body would heal, and the light would last forever.

Acknowledgments

I owe thanks to my editor, Edward Kastenmeier, and to everyone at Pantheon and Knopf who has supported this book, including Tim O’Connell, Rita Madrigal, and Josefine Kals; to Alex Bowler and everyone at Jonathan Cape; to my agent, Jennifer Carlson, and her colleagues at Dunow, Carlson & Lerner; and to Heather Swan, for her early encouragement and her help with the title.

A Note About the Author

Kevin Brockmeier is the author of The View from the Seventh Layer, The Brief History of the Dead, The Truth About Celia, Things That Fall from the Sky, and two children’s novels. He has taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His stories have appeared in many publications, including The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and The Oxford American, and have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, O. Henry Prize Stories, and Granta Best of Young American Novelists. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.