A.M. Homes is the author of the memoir The Mistress’s Daughter and the novels May We Be Forgiven, This Book Will Change Your Life, Music for Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers, and Jack, as well as the story collections The Safety of Objects and Things You Should Know. The recipient of numerous awards, she has published fiction and essays in the New Yorker, Granta, Harpers, McSweeney’s, One Story, the New York Times, and Vanity Fair, where she is a contributing editor. She lives in New York City.