Contents

Part One

Chapter one: The Wedding

Chapter two: Breakfast

Chapter three: The Messenger

Chapter four: The Time-Teller

Chapter five: Inferno

Chapter six: The Reunion

Chapter seven: Two Silver Dollars

Part Two

Chapter eight: A Marriage of Propriety

Chapter nine: The Phoenix Dance

Chapter ten: The Break

Chapter eleven: The Rose

Chapter twelve: The Toad and the Goldfish

Chapter thirteen: The Heart of a Butterfly

Chapter fourteen: The Scarecrow

Part Three

Chapter fifteen: The Apartments of Peace

Chapter sixteen: The Ballroom

Chapter seventeen: The Portrait of the King

Chapter eighteen: Camillie

Chapter nineteen: The Red Dream Hotel

Chapter twenty: The Bicycle

Chapter twenty-one: Wings of the Dragonfly

Chapter twenty-two: Flames of the Dragon

Chapter twenty-three: The Silver Anklet

Chapter twenty-four: The Road to Nirvana

Chapter twenty-five: Clumps of Bindweed

Epilogue: A Taste of Gardenia

Author's Note

Acknowledgments

A note about the author

The Tapeslries

Out of Whole Cloth

Also by Kien Nguyen