Eleven Hours by Pamela Erens

Author:Pamela Erens
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Tin House Books
Published: 2016-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My heartfelt gratitude once again to my agent, Anna Stein, and my editor, Tony Perez of Tin House Books, both of whom pushed this book to become the best it could be. Also to Anna’s assistant, Alex Hoyt, and to Nanci McCloskey, Diane Chonette, Jakob Vala, and all the Tin House folks who continue to make the process of publishing such a pleasure.

Thanks to the large number of people who spent their time to ensure that my portrait of a hospital labor would be accurate; any errors are my own. These helpers include Jan Kaminsky, RN, Ilena Kasdan, RN, Laurie Konowitz, MD, Jennifer Lublin, MD, Einat Manor, MD, Johanna McCarty, RN, Laura Ratner, Pamela Schachter, Claudia Taubman, MD, JoAnn Yates, CNM, and above all the extraordinary Tracy Claxton, RN. Rabbi Hannah Orden aided me with my inquiries about Jewish prayer. Thank you to Reverend Rose-Marie Dominique, who patiently answered my questions about Voudon, and Professor Elizabeth McAlister, who referred me to her. Thank you to Tara Lissade for general knowledge about Haiti, and to Enrique Urueta for his preternatural sleuthing skills. Thank you to Jonathan Ratner for his rigorous spousal copy editing.

Thank you to Margot Livesey, Randall Kenan, and Paula Whyman for invaluable feedback, and to my irreplaceable writers’ group—Joanne Fisher, Therese Eiben, Lynn Schmeidler, and Philip Moustakis—for nursing Eleven Hours along.

Thank you to the many members of Mothers & More—too many to name individually—who helped me with various labor-related questions, some of them ridiculous.

Profound thanks, as always, to my nearest and dearest, Jonathan, Abraham, and Hannah, who support and encourage me and keep me on the right track in the ways that count.

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