Table of Contents
Provenance 3
Downstairs
Entry
Door 7
Bathroom 8
Closet 10
Passage 11
Living Room
That Chair 12
Art 14
Visitor 15
Dining Room
Money Laundering 16
Oh, My 18
Ritual 19
Collector's Item 20
Phone 21
August 4, 1944 22
Kitchen
Reveille 23
Blood and Water 24
The Radio 25
Legacy 26
Junk Drawer 27
Vision 28
Over Coffee 29
Daddy's Last Christmas 30
Kitchen Table 31
Basement
What Won't Burn 32
Bucket Brigade 33
Garage
The Ham 35
New Room 36
Flood
It Got Us This Time 41
No Light 43
Worst Flood in Harlan County History 44
Interim 46
Threshold 47
Upstairs
Stairway
Landing 51
Library
On Those Shelves 52
Interior Design 53
Portrait 55
Smithereens 56
Memory Book 58
It Was a Year 60
This Is 61
Shit 62
[Untitled] 63
Hall
By the Laundry Hamper 64
Linen Closet 66
My Room
Toy Chest 67
Hiding 68
Doll Mother 69
Night of the Mysteries 70
Brother's Room
Off Limits 73
How It Smelled 74
Sleepless 75
Parents' Room
Arthritis, 1952 77
The Photo of Granny Buby 78
November 21, 1963 80
Half 81
With a Song in His Heart 82
Bathroom
Sanctus 84
Company 86
Cliff 88
Yard
D-Day 93
Westward Ho 95
At Play 96
All of It
Postgraduate Work 99
It Doesn't Matter 100
In the ER 101
On Her Side 103
Final Play 105
Labor 106
Every Cupboard Bare, Every Head Bowed 107
Thanksgiving Night 109
The Day After 110
I Can't Believe 112
Welcome 114
Acknowledgments 117
Index of First Lines 119
