1 A Fatalistic Gaiety -- 2 Light through Leaves -- 3 Gran and Granddad -- 4 Grandmother and Grandfather -- 5 The Kennedy House -- 6 The Substance of Fantasy -- 7 Going to School -- 8 Pride and Prudery -- 9 The Larger World -- 10 Literary Property -- 11 Danger Zones -- 12 The Master of the Cutting Monosyllable -- 13 North Kildonan -- 14 Resistentialism -- 15 A Long View -- 16 The Cracked Mirror -- 17 Isabel's Chalet -- 18 The Inescapable -- 19 Sylvan Avenue and the Bluffs -- 20 Abstractions -- 21 No Perfect Time
Summary
A childhood of freedom and risk, of navigating the shoals of a combative family, and reaching out for an understanding of the world
