Contents
Foreword
The Presentation
Part I: Excuse Yourself
Chapter 1. A Boy in a Room
Chapter 2. What I Saw When I Looked
Chapter 3. So Far from Home
The Academy
Part II: The Sort of Place You’d Pull Last if You Could
Chapter 4. Another Planet
Chapter 5. Survival Skills
Chapter 6. The Ghost of a Stripe
Chapter 7. Paper Cup
Chapter 8. A Real Person
Chapter 9. Outcomes
The Club
Part III: No Destination but the Drive
Chapter 10. Light Casualties
Chapter 11. Black Skin and Wire-Rimmed Glasses
Chapter 12. Speed and Other Limits
Chapter 13. Twenty Years
The Street
Part IV: Picture Takin’ Man
Chapter 14. Like a Little Bird
Chapter 15. Human Interest
Chapter 16. Sidebar
The Precinct
Part V: Black Man in a White Room
Chapter 17. Etiquette
Chapter 18. The Center of Every Story
Chapter 19. Just About Everything
The Basement
Part VI: Eighteen Inches
Chapter 20. Into the Blue Cocoon
Chapter 21. Hope and Hard Work
Chapter 22. Block After Block
Chapter 23. Tug of War
Chapter 24. One Last Thursday
The Presentation
Afterword