| This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is coincidental. |
| Chapter three of this novel, first finalist for the Southern Prize for fiction in 1995, appeared in The Southern Anthology, R. Sebastian Bennett, ed., Lafayette, Louisiana: Southern Artists Alliance, 1995. |
| For reliable guides to local cuisine, including "stomach grenades," I have made grateful use of Roadfood, by Jane and Michael Stern, New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 1992. |
| For Ozarkan tall tales, I have referred to Vance Randolph's collection, We Always Lie to Strangers: Tall Tales from the Ozarks, New York: Columbia University Press, 1951. |
| For details and anecdotes about Chicago police work, I am indebted to Connie Fletcher's two compilations, What Cops Know and Pure Cop. Both books were produced in New York in 1991 by Villard Books, a division of Random House. |
| Cannibalistic practices among Neolithic peoples of the Southwest are discussed in Science News, vol. 143, January 2, 1993. |
| I would particularly like to thank Jeredith Merrin for her generous support and her expert reading; the book could not have been finished without her help. Thanks go as well as to Elizabeth and Jay Lockman for providing a writer's retreat, and to Helen Deutsch and Francis Geiger, friends whose suggestions and encouragement have been invaluable. |
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