The world of Emily Gordons is an honorable guild of creative workers, with only a few exceptions—and those exceptions get a free pass because they’re undergraduates and, lord knows, we would have made awful fools of ourselves if we had been online then. (By “we,” I mean “me.”) Notable Emily Gordons include the polymathically brilliant Emily Gordon, writer of Gynomite! and, among many other things, a licensed therapist who gives me platinum advice for free. And for more than a decade, I’ve been following the writing career of Emily Fox Gordon, whose beautifully crafted essays, fiction, and book-length nonfiction are a pleasure to read. Now she’s working on a new novel, and, speaking for all Emily Gordons, we are very excited to read it. —Emily Gordon