Chapters (47)
- Cover
- Title Page
- Note to Reader
- Dedication
- Man at His Bath
- My Hair Is My Thing
- The Suggested Face for Sorry
- Lying Is Getting
- Five by Seven
- California
- A Space to Train and Exit
- Magpie
- Tea
- Have at It
- Tomatoes Ten Ways
- They Said It Couldn’t Be Done
- It for Me
- Sunshower
- Green
- Totally under the Water
- Long Wedding
- The Greatest Two Minutes in Sports
- You Missed a Spot
- Weekend
- Stoop
- Flowers Would Have Killed You
- The Lone Acceptable Application of Daylight
- Say It to My Face
- Good Share
- It Used to Be We Had to Go to War
- During the Strife, My Sisters
- And Also with You
- Good Description
- The Beach
- Don’t Spend It All in One Place
- Other Things, If Not More Urgent Things
- Some Toxin
- Fake Sick
- Home, Followed by Tall Buildings
- And Stay Out
- Ohio on TV
- Fifty
- Pennsylvania
- About the Author
- Also by Natalie Shapero
- Acknowledgments
- Special Thanks
Cynthia Sears
Kim and Jeff Seely
Joan F. Woods
Barbara and Charles Wright
Caleb Young as C. Young Creative
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