My Unsentimental Education

the following publications in which excerpts and sometimes bits or traces of this book were previously published: Longreads.com; the American Scholar; the Morning News; the Southern Review; the Florida Review; RACAonline; Inside Higher Ed. Thank you to my absolutely wonderful agent, Jane Gelfman, and to Lisa Bayer and Elizabeth Crowley.
To Gary, Fraiser, and Marie: XXOO.

AUTHOR’S NOTE
For the sake of other people’s privacy, I’ve changed some names, as I’ve clearly indicated in the book. Sometimes, when a name was too ideal, too allegorical, I just couldn’t, as I’ve also indicated. For the same reason—because I’m telling my story, not anyone else’s—I’ve changed some identifying details about some secondary characters.