Cary Git­ter is the author of the plays The Steel Man, Gene & Gil­da, and The Sab­bath Girl, among oth­ers, and the co-cre­ator of the musi­cals The Sab­bath Girl and How My Grand­par­ents Fell in Love. His work has appeared off-Broad­way and at the­aters around the coun­try, and he is the play­wright-in-res­i­dence at Pen­guin Rep The­atre in Stony Point, New York. He grew up in New Jer­sey and now lives in Ann Arbor, Michi­gan, with his wife, Meghan, and their two dogs, Roo and Puck. This is his first novel.