Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- About this Book -- Epigraph -- By Way of an Introduction -- Number 1 -- On Being Jewish -- Sister Rae -- Crimes, Punishments and a Bit of Screaming -- Now You Are a Woman -- Everything Turns to Ash -- Sandra and Sammy Go to the Movies -- In Bandung We Dance the Polka -- White Knight Rescue -- What the Psychologist Says -- Lunch -- M- -- The North Koreans Come to Town -- Doves and Roses -- A Keffiyeh and Four Yarmulkes -- The Slipper Walloping Story -- Fantasia -- The Cuban Missile Crisis -- Moscow Nights - and Days -- Can You Keep a Secret?
Moratorium: a sliver -- Peep -- Reflections after a Brief Correspondence with Kim -- Santamaria the Mamzer -- Three Gongs -- Sammy and Rosie Go to the Movies -- Poetry -- Launching Rachel (Lazarus Rises) -- The Massage -- Another Lunch -- Moving Day -- Dying Night -- Dear Friends: An email post-mortem -- The Funeral, the Memorial and Going to Shul -- Burial -- Letter to Sister Two, Post Facto -- Perusing the Files -- Coda -- About the Author
