Contents
1943
West
Us
Until We Found Our Own
Land
In the Day, in the Night
From Fields, from Concrete
Winter
Our Husbands
Cooking
Foreigners
Growing
Help
A Good Wife
When the Ground Trembled
Talk
1944
Intimacies
Military
Women’s Army Corps
Thaw
The Director
Letters
Heat
Husbands
The Beach
Wanted
The Commissary
Ants
The Theater
Our Children
Days
Exceptions
Close Quarters
Excursions
Waverley
Children
Pond
Longing
Spreading Rumors
Crossroads
Parenting
Blame
Instructions
Other Women’s Children
When We Woke
1945
Cities
Lookouts
Our Older Children
The Hush
A Night Passing
We Cheered, We Shuddered
Us
After
Lifted
Going Back
By the End
Our Last
The Director
Our Children
We Left
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Author