I also owe thanks to Erik Reece, for writing Utopia Drive, which was enormously informative and let me think about American attempts at perfection much more clearly. To the folks at the Oneida Community, and their efforts to keep the history of that project alive; I apologize for liberties I’ve taken in portraying the Community, which is more complicated in fact than I’ve allowed it to be in this book.
Thanks to Legs the whippet, who kept me company and lent emotional support through almost every page of this book, often with his head almost obscuring the keyboard. And always, to Jan, who is reader, editor, co-conspirator, sympathetic ear, problem-solver, first opinion, second opinion, font of literary knowledge, and egger-on—you make all this possible.
By Caite Dolan-Leach
Dead Letters
We Went to the Woods
Caite Dolan-Leach is the author of Dead Letters; she is also a literary translator. Born in the Finger Lakes region, she is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and the American University in Paris. We Went to the Woods is her second novel.
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