Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The Magician -- 2. Shiksa in My Living Room -- 3. Chickens of Suburbia -- 4. Sham Poodle Dreams -- 5. A Tourist, of Sorts -- 6. My Life as a Hippie Chick -- 7. Deathbed Pearls -- 8. My People -- 9. A Hushed Blue Underworld -- 10. Little Pink Hatchling -- 11. Slow Train to the Forbidden City -- 12. New York: 1986�89 -- 13. Women of Pompeii -- 14. The Weight of Stuff -- 15. A Certain Shade of Blue -- 16. The Last Days of Disco Donut (1987�89)
17. Mongrels of Salamanca18. Feminist Christmas Tree Farm -- 9. The Girls of Usually -- 20. The Lost Language of Lox -- 21. Death and Furniture -- 22. Transitions -- 23. Slim-Fast Vacation -- 24. Unloading Bones -- 25. Father's Advice -- 26. The Golden Cord -- 27. Into the Arms of Strangers -- 28. Fahrenheit or Celsius: Long Distance Love in Degrees -- 29. OpenWide66 -- 30. Dating My Mother -- 31. The Big SMoke -- 32. The Woman who Owned a Place in Flannery O'Connor's Hometown -- Epilogue (2014) -- About the Author
