Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Table of Contents vi
3. The Plan 1
4. The Plan, Amended 2
5. New Breasts = New Bras 9
6. To Food 11
7. Dear James 15
8. You Got to Cut Its Th roat 19
9. Hello, Please Help Me 27
10. How to Make the World a Better Place 29
11. Just So You’re All Right Now 35
12. All Th at Matters 38
13. Th e Arc and the Sediment 43
14. A Sore Cursing 48
15. Hello, Kitty 55
16. Fruit Sauce Should Always Be Served on the Side 68
17. Th e Curiously Multifaceted Nature of Victimization 75
18. The Wavering Red Light 81
19. An Unspeakable Shine 84
20. Entering the Third Dimension 87
21. Forward, Anywhere 98
22. What Becomes of Virginia Dare 102
23. In the Vat Lies the Fruit 103
24. Second Place Is Pretty Good, Considering 113
25. A Little Reluctance Goes a Long Way 115
26. I Want Some Cookies 121
27. Who’s Your Butterfly? 123
28. In Drills and Bursts 128
29. Rubber Hatchets 134
30. I’m Saying If 136
31. I’m Saying When 138
32. Do You Want to Save Changes? 142
33. As a Matter of Spite 153
34. Keeping It Out 156
35. Words for Later 162
36. And Also It Goes Back to That Whistle 171
37. They’ll Eat My Irises 178
38. Or What 185
39. The Image Lasts All the Way Across 189
40. Afterword: Gretta’s Alternative Twelve Steps to Sobriety 194
41. Acknowledgments 196