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Chapters (21)
  1. Praise
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. CONTENTS
  5. IN A DEER STAND
  6. SUN DOGS
  7. HYGGE
  8. BY SYDVEST STATION
  9. BETWEEN OFFICES
  10. THE FAIRGROUND
  11. COMPACTION BIRDS
  12. PERSHING SQUARE
  13. HONEYSUCKLE
  14. ON NARROW PAVED PATHS
  15. INSIDE ST. PAUL’S
  16. THE FREEZER CHEST
  17. MANITOBA
  18. WILD SWIMS
  19. PUSHKIN PRESS
  20. ALSO BY DORTHE NORS
  21. COPYRIGHT

But now they’ve knocked, and at first it’s quiet, and there’s this listening attitude they’ve developed, head raised and ear cocked toward the door. It doesn’t sound as if anyone’s home. Or actually it does. Someone’s moving about in the entryway, and just a moment before there were footsteps, and now someone is muttering within. “Someone’s muttering in there,” Kirsten says, and Lina nods, but just because people mutter in their hallways, that doesn’t mean that anyone’s coming out, so Kirsten places her mouth close to the glow-in-the-dark rubber and says that they’re from the Cancer Society, collecting donations, and “Would you like to support our work?”