Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. The Blind Massage Parlor 1
5. The Caretaker’s Daughter 5
6. Love Poem from South China 6
7. Neighborhood Kids 8
8. Two Menus 9
9. Articulation 11
10. Chinese Highway 12
11. American Highway 13
12. Four Years of Winter 14
13. Public Relations, Beijing 15
14. Extreme Sports 19
15. Honeymoon 20
16. Foreigners 21
17. Seafood 22
18. Housekeeping 23
19. Night Swimming 24
20. Sex Poem 26
21. Girls at 1001 Nights 28
22. Belligerence 29
23. Straight Up 31
24. Joint Venture 32
25. I was dancing when I heard 34
26. Your Wife 35
27. Wake Up 36
28. Reticence School 37
29. My Grandfather’s Wives 38
30. Cardiac Breakfast 39
31. Prison Questions 40
32. Stampede 44
33. Driving Lesson, 1984 46
34. Dialysis 47
35. Report Cards of the Not Quite Dead 49
36. Without 51
37. Horse Fair 53
38. You Wrote Your Own Obituary 54
39. Dear Geryon 56
40. Dear Alice 58
41. Parting at Changgan 60
42. Power of the Powerless 61
43. From Your Mama at First 63
44. Next Up 64
45. Imagining 65
46. Once Conscious 66
47. My Mother Comes Back to Me 67
48. Too 68