Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. The Blind Impress 1
5. Part One
6. Prologue 3
7. That Green Evening 6
8. The Blind Impress 9
9. The Other Side of the Tracks 17
10. Of the Woe That Is in Marriage 23
11. Manawatu 29
12. Fires of No Return 32
13. Fugue 41
14. Shots in the Dark 44
15. Recaptured 51
16. No Quarter 56
17. Part Two
18. Beyond the Call of Duty 65
19. Talking to Jack Hansen 70
20. Passing Strange 81
21. Still Life with Lading Lists 86
22. Part Three
23. The Remaining Pieces 93
24. Guilt and Shame 99
25. Death’s Secretary 109
26. Stories Happen 114
27. Time and Space 121
28. The Enigma of Anteriority 129
29. First Things First 129
30. Braided Rivers 131
31. Against the Grain 136
32. No Direction Home 145
33. Crossing Cook Strait 157
34. Metaphor of the Table 168
35. Destruction and Hope 175
36. Distance Looks Our Way 180
37. The Illusion of Corsica 184
38. Return to the Manawatu 193
39. Burned Places 202
40. Revenant 205
41. Te Ãti Awa 210
42. Symbolic Landscape 221
43. Two Women 225
44. The Road to Karuna Falls 233
45. Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? 240
46. Taking a Line for a Walk 245
47. Afterword 255
48. Notes 261
49. Acknowledgments 283
50. Index 285