And ardent thanks to the people who fed Meena’s half of the book: Hilary Schenker and her inspired hands and eyes; Joy Harris; Terry Sheehan and the New York Public Library’s Seward Park Center for Reading and Writing (especially Senetta, Teresa, June, and Vasyl); the Chinatown Tenants Union (NYC); Naomi Shihab Nye; Sabrina Brooks; Ranjana Varghese; Karuna Morarji; Vinish Gupta; Mridu Mahajan; Jitendra Sharma and family; Sonu Vishnoi; Kapil Gupta and Tara Maria. For good eats on 10 Central: Sabs Shakley, Edelen McWilliams, Sam Zalutsky and Ed Boland, Matt and Lisa Lowenbraun, Liz Gordon, Kelly Van Zile and Andrew Grusetskie. Ashok Vaswani for his Hindi translation and penmanship. Much gratitude to the fine folks of Candlewick Press for making and supporting beautiful books, and to collaborator extraordinaire, Silas House, for writing the other half of this one. To my mother and father, as always. And to beloved Ann and Jim Gordon. To my grandmother, Sita Manganmalani, who was raised in Mussoorie, and to her mother, whose name has been lost.
