Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents viii
3. I
4. Marriage Ephemera 3
5. The night Saddam Hussein died we were drunk 4
6. Las Vegas Strip, 4 a.m. 5
7. On all the nights he leaves me, a spider crawls into my head, 7
8. Escape Fallacy 8
9. Stand Burn 14
10. Tight Spaces 16
11. Clark County Reveal 17
12. Pearl 18
13. II
14. Lost Body 21
15. While paying for lunch I found his wedding ring 23
16. The Fish 24
17. First Summer 25
18. Knit Tight 26
19. The Science of Sight 30
20. Model Victim 31
21. Calculus of Violent Behavior 33
22. Taking the Moon, Burning It Down 34
23. III
24. Siren Song 37
25. Bleeding, Love 38
26. Victim Mentality 39
27. Five days after the second affair 41
28. Night Volta 43
29. It happened on Scissors Street, it happened in spring. 44
30. Entering the Mach Band 45
31. Distress Signal 46
32. Keep the restraining order with you at all times. 47
33. IV
34. Lay 51
35. A physicist tells me 54
36. Olfaction 55
37. I wrote my estranged husband a love letter, 58
38. Family Portrait 59
39. Red Giant Woman 60
40. On the Stellar Evolution of Black Dwarfs 61
41. Fear of Inheritance 62
42. Black Acres 63
43. Acknowledgments 65