Contents

• Prologue

1. First Date, One
2. A First Time for Everything
3. First Date, Two
4. Lessons in Survival
5. After the End
6. Christmas Eve, One (Always Crashing in the Same Car)
7. Christmas Eve, Two
8. Eat or be Eaten
9. Christmas Eve, Three
10. Home is Anywhere You Hang Your Head
11. Birthday
12. Better Living Through Chemistry
13. Turning Point
14. Get Me to the Church on Time
15. Married Life
16. Library Science Fiction
17. A Very Small Shoe
18. One
19. Two
20. Intermezzo
21. New Year's Eve, One
22. Three
23. Four
24. Five
25. Six
26. Baby Dreams
27. Seven
28. Alba, An Introduction
29. Birthday
30. Secret
31. Experiencing Technical Difficulties
32. Nature Morte
33. Birthday
34. Secret
35. The Episode of the Monroe Street Parking Garage
36. Birthday
37. An Unpleasant Scene
38. The Episode of the Monroe Street Parking Garage
39. Fragments
40. Feet Dreams
41. What Goes Around Comes Around
42. Hours, If Not Days
43. New Year's Eve, Two
44. Dissolution
45. Dasein
46. Renascence
47. Always Again

• Acknowledgements
• Permissions Acknowledgements
• Reading Group Guide