CONTENTS

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Fernweh (Is German for “Wanderlust”)
  6. Tell Abrar
  7. Welcome to the Dig
  8. A Trowel, a Plumb Bob, and Not a Single Sun Hat in Sight
  9. When a Stranger Comes from the Desert
  10. The Thing about Curses
  11. Exodus and the Power of the Internet
  12. Certain Benefits Come with Working in the Kitchen
  13. And the Wind Howled
  14. Out of Comfort Zone
  15. Hemingway, Bones, and Mirages
  16. In Heaven, Everything is Fine
  17. Whatever’s Necessary
  18. Sabotage?
  19. Cogito, Ergo Sum
  20. A Night Visitor
  21. Worse than Sabotage
  22. The Power of Denial
  23. The Dream Maker
  24. Reality? Any Takers?
  25. Recovery
  26. Reality Fissures
  27. The Real Tale of the Desert Man
  28. Ghosts and Smugglers
  29. To many Strange Returns
  30. The Rift
  31. Where is the Intervention Banner?
  32. We are all Dying
  33. It Ends. Or it Begins.
  34. Communion by the Cliffs
  35. Whispers, Promises
  36. Author’s Note
  37. Acknowledgments
  38. About the Author
  39. Copyright