Chapter 10 thank you

Before expressing our thanks, a few questions of background.The village of Shadbagh is fictitious, but somewhere in Afghanistan, such a name may actually exist.Even so, I never set foot in it.Abdullah and Pari's nursery rhymes, especially "The Sad Little Fairy", were inspired by a poem by the late and eminent Persian poet Forough Farrokhzad.Finally, the title of this book was inspired in part by William Blake's beautiful poem "The Nanny Song". I would like to thank Bob Barnett and Deneen Howell for their excellent guidance and recommendations for this book.Thank you, Helen Heller, David Grossman, Jody Hotchkiss.Thanks to Chandler Crawford for her passion, patience and advice.Many thanks to my friends at Riverhead Publishing: Jynne Martin, Kate Stark, Sarah Stein, Leslie Schwartz, Clay Craig D. Burke, Helen Yentus, and many more I haven't mentioned have helped bring this book to readers, and I can't thank you enough.

Thanks to my brilliant copy editor Tony Davis for boldly stepping outside Call of Duty. Special thanks go to my editor, the brilliant Sarah McGrath, for her insights and vision, as well as for her gentle supervision and for helping me shape this book with more suggestions than I can list enumerate.Sarah, I have never had such an enjoyable editing process. Finally, I would like to thank Susan Petersen Kennedy and Geoffrey Kloske for their trust and unwavering confidence in me and my work. thank you Thank you, Tashakor [thank you], all my friends, all my relatives, for always supporting me, for bearing with me patiently, firmly and kindly.As always, I want to thank my beautiful wife, Roya, who not only read and edited several manuscripts of this book, but also manages our daily lives without a single complaint, allowing me to write.Without you, Roja, this book would have died on page one, paragraph one.I love you.