At the airport : a romance -- Lullaby for Lloyd -- Wild music : reflections on big oil and innocence -- Three paragraphs -- Grease monkey -- My mother's body -- The metaphysics of being stuck -- Angle of attack -- Blue storm -- Unlearning to fly
Summary
A memoir of a bookworm growing up in Alaska - among people whose resilience, restlessness, and energy find their highest expression in winter ascents of Mount McKinley or first descents of wild rivers
