CONTENTS
Shopping for a Better Country
Dead Fathers Society
Terrible Twos Travel
Ruth’s Death
On Raising a Prodigy
Five Easy Pieces in Moscow
Sumka 43—A Captive Cello
Blue Note
The Art of Coughing
On Sleeping
Friendship Addiction
Carthage, Algiers, and Fes
My Hungary
Vukovar
Two Croatias
Berlin Journal
Why I Can’t Write Erotica
Literary Tombs
Balkan Express
Acknowledgments