Contents
Foreword
Prologue
I. The Signs
First Symptoms
Faint
Returning Home
Their Repetitions
Sweet Potatoes
The Setup
Everything We Save
Tests
History
Ducts
Daylilies
This Disease
The Quiet Ones
II. The Enternanment Center
Restless
Adult Day Care
Message
Family Night at the Entertainment Center
André
Evidence
Escape
Here
Failure
Fast Train, Fast Water
Gifts
III. The Language of the (Not-So) Dead
The Language of the Body
The Language of Resistance
The Language of Duplicity
The Language of Ancestors
Dialogue (With the Selves)
The Earliest Language
Silence
IV. The Garden Room
Trip
Bloom
Taking Form
Quilt
Dinner
Halloween
Distance
Effaced
Hands
The Metaphor
Lifework
V. The Dreams We Remember
The Dream of Carrying Him
The Dream of Ancestors
Dream of the Self
The Dream of Playing Golf
The Dream of Children
Dream of the Dark
My Favorite Dream
Epilogue