Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vi
3. Image viii
4. Preface ix
5. One
6. Country of Strangers 1
7. Driving by the Old Homestead 4
8. Mountains like Ribs 6
9. The Homesteader's Wife 8
10. Today is all they have 10
11. Baking Lessons 12
12. Momma Said 13
13. The Winter Meat 14
14. My Father Hilling Potatoes 15
15. Two
16. Girl made of Fog 17
17. Summer Untethered 20
18. Hum 21
19. Leda 22
20. Horse Called Charlie 24
21. Along the Print 25
22. Sleepwalking Toward Myself 26
23. Stealing the Strawberries 27
24. No One asks about the Bridge 28
25. In the Playhouse 30
26. Sleeping the Chickens 32
27. Childhood, Swallow 33
28. Ice's Apprentice 34
29. December's Tree 35
30. Three
31. Survival Tactics 37
32. Painting the Stones 40
33. The Button Box 42
34. About the Garage 45
35. The Card Shark 46
36. Because Music is Green 48
37. Neighbors 49
38. The Earth is Breakable 50
39. I Watch the Hired Men Pick Potatoes 52
40. Our Father Leaving us 53
41. Night Sounds 54
42. He's Talking 56
43. Someone Should have kicked the Pedophiles off our Place 57
44. Four
45. Tower Bells 61
46. Leaving for the University 62
47. Whole 63
48. Her Garden 64
49. May, at my father's Burial 65
50. To Dust 66
51. On being Disinherited 68
52. Coming out of Nowhere 70
53. Acknowledgments 72
54. Notes from the Preface 73