Anxious Hearts (22 page)

Authors: Tucker Shaw

Tags: #Text

BOOK: Anxious Hearts

3.38Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub

“Evangeline” remains an unbeatable inspiration—both for me and for Gabe Lejeune, the scribbling, floppy-haired boy from Franktown who disappears, the boy Eva refuses to give up on.

The poem recounted by the notary Leblanc on pages 71–74 is excerpted from Part 1 of “Evangeline.”

The words Gabe sings on page 59 are from “Vincent,” by Don McLean.

The song on the car radio on page 51 is “Over the Hills and Far Away,” by Led Zeppelin.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks are due to gentle, brilliant, beautiful Tamar Brazis, who is much smarter than I am, just as editors should be. To Maria Middleton and Chad Beckerman, who attend so carefully to every design they create. Jonathan Beckerman, for his beautiful photographs. Scott Auerbach, for his clarity and helpfulness. Jason Wells, for unyielding energy. Susan Van Metre and the team at Amulet, for believing that a centuries-old love story was worth telling again. To Dan Mandel, for helping with the p’s and q’s. To my friends for graciously allowing me to insert Longfellow quotations into conversation, even when they didn’t belong. To A, for patience. And to Gabriel and Evangeline, for never giving up.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

T
UCKER
S
HAW
, who has been featured on
The Today Show
, is the author of
Everything I Ate
and many popular books for teens, including
Confessions of a Backup Dancer
and
The Girls
. He lives in Denver, where he is a food editor for the
Denver Post
.

This book was designed by Maria T. Middleton and art directed by Chad W. Beckerman. The text is set in 12-point Adobe Garamond, a typeface originally drawn by the sixteenth-century French engraver and punch cutter Claude Garamond. The display font used for Gabriel is P22 Roanoke Script, and the display font used for Eva is Filosofia Unicase. The title typography is hand-drawn, based on the letter forms of Adobe Garamond.

T
UCKER
S
HAW
, who has been featured on the
Today Show
, is the author of
Everything I Ate
and many popular books for teens, including
Confessions of a Backup Dancer
and
The Girls.
He lives in Denver, Colorado, where he is a food editor for the
Denver Post.