Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Settlers’ Descendant Reclaims the Past
4. Settlers’ Descendant Reclaims the Past 3
5. Variations of Home 5
6. Confessions of a Migratory Species 7
7. Highway 511, Lanark Village 9
8. Lanark County Love 15
9. Sentinel 17
10. Local Beliefs 18
11. The Rules of the Kingdom 20
12. Fire Loves 22
13. Paint by Numbers: Lanark Fire, 1959 23
14. I Should Have Married a Fireman 25
15. April, Ottawa Valley 26
16. Weight of the Word
17. Antecedents 29
18. Photo, Post-baptism, 1969 31
19. In Dreams, When Someone Calls My Name 32
20. Cat Got My Tongue 34
21. At Thirteen 35
22. Survival 37
23. Resurrection 39
24. Weight of the Word 40
25. Suffer No Fools 42
26. Sport 43
27. The F-word 45
28. Blue Ghazal 47
29. Village Life 48
30. Via Dolorosa 50
31. Cleavage
32. Gazing across Venous Lake 53
33. New Mother’s Song, 5 a.m. 55
34. Waterslide 57
35. Parenting Strategy #4 60
36. Young Building, Dusk 61
37. Hormones Are Coming 62
38. Suede Wedge-Heeled Boots 63
39. Cleavage 65
40. Astrology Gets You Off the Hook 67
41. After the Paris Nightclub Attack 69
42. The World's Smallest Republic
43. What We Thought about sex at Fifteen 73
44. Flick You, Teenage Love 74
45. Coastal Romance 76
46. Earth Girl Tells All 77
47. Honda CB-750 78
48. Strangers We Are Not 79
49. The World’s Smallest Republic 80
50. Sunday Morning Praise 81
51. Leonid Love 84
52. Outskirts 86
53. Want(on) and On 88
54. Next Time the World Will Burn
55. Revision 99
56. The Ten Suggestions 100
57. Other Versions of the Dream 103
58. Cheat 104
59. Advice 105
60. Memento 106
61. It’s Just a Bath 108
62. Liar, Lyre 110
63. Discovery Coffee Shop 111
64. God Decides to Start Again 113
65. Next Time the World Will Burn 116
66. Notes 117
67. Acknowledgments 119