Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Part I
5. First Teacher 3
6. Ars Poetica 5
7. Orphan 8
8. Alibi 10
9. Visiting 14
10. Location, Location 16
11. This 17
12. The Accounting 20
13. That Feeling 21
14. From the Road Walking 23
15. Part II
16. The Cistern 27
17. Flames Behind Your Head 28
18. Caravaggio’s The Calling of St. Matthew 29
19. The Round-Up 30
20. Seen from Far Away 32
21. The Close of Winter 35
22. Depth of Field: Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow 37
23. Black Bough 38
24. Evening Song 43
25. From Another Past, This Past 44
26. Another Republic 45
27. Do You Believe in the Afterlife? 47
28. Training 48
29. The Kitchen 49
30. The Dream 50
31. Divorce 51
32. Part III
33. November 55
34. The Starfish 56
35. The Women’s Prison 57
36. The Greyhound 59
37. What We Need 61
38. The Stand-In 63
39. Love 65
40. Driving in Spring 66
41. Notes 69