Table of Contents
Prologue xi
Part I Songs of His People
Chapter 1 The Oops! Baby 3
Chapter 2 Mom Leaves Derek 9
Chapter 3 Drinking with Dad 19
Chapter 4 Cain without Abel 25
Chapter 5 Epiphanies 35
Chapter 6 Pygmalion, Texas 41
Chapter 7 Bread Thou Art 55
Chapter 8 Bread Thou Shalt Remain 57
Chapter 9 Caramelization 61
Chapter 10 Toast 67
Part II The Unwedded
Chapter 11 It Was just One of Those Things 71
Chapter 12 Stephanie of a Thousand Lives 83
Chapter 13 Cannibal Hymns 95
Chapter 14 The War of the Rats 99
Chapter 15 Cleopatra 103
Chapter 16 Beating Up Lesbians 107
Chapter 17 The Wrong Side of the Fork 125
Chapter 18 Showering Blows 131
Chapter 19 Every Exit an Entrance, Someplace Else 137
Chapter 20 What the Morning Brings 151
Chapter 21 Neon Crosses 155
Part III Looking Down
Chapter 22 Sarah's Place 171
Chapter 23 Buying Goblin Fruit 177
Chapter 24 The Hurricane 185
Chapter 25 The Third Place 195
Chapter 26 Now the Wolf 205
Chapter 27 People Ain't No Good 219
Chapter 28 Stalling 223
Chapter 29 Easy Money 229
Chapter 30 Queen of the Savages 237
Chapter 31 Northern Exposure 241
Chapter 32 Roslyn 245
Chapter 33 Good-bye, Jack County 247
Chapter 34 The Low Gear 257
Chapter 35 Dining with Cannibals 263
Chapter 36 The Way to Say Good-bye 279
Epilogue 287
Coda 291
Acknowledgments 295
About the Author 297