Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Chapter 1: The Wise Man of Orange Blossom Key

Chapter 2: The Unlikely Joy of Being Catapulted into Vienna

Chapter 3: Suzie

Chapter 4: The Barbarian Problem

Chapter 5: Your Soul Can Be Canceled Like a Dumb TV Show

Chapter 6: The Eleanor Roosevelt of the Sea

Chapter 7: The Time Milo Had to Come Back as a Bug

Chapter 8: Holy Cow

Chapter 9: The Secret Lover of Sophia Maria Mozart

Chapter 10: The Looking Glass People

Chapter 11: The Flood

Chapter 12: The Day Iago Fortuno Died of Old Age

Chapter 13: The Swami Who Could Not Be Poisoned

Chapter 14: The Hasty Pudding Affair

Chapter 15: Lifting Elephants, Juggling Water

Chapter 16: The Green-Apple Game

Chapter 17: A Real Thing, with Substance and Power

Chapter 18: Slaughterhouse

Chapter 19: The Most Amazing Girl You Knew in High School

Chapter 20: The Discredited Economist Who Fell from the Sky

Chapter 21: The Buddha in Winter

Chapter 22: Escape to Chinese Heaven

Chapter 23: Julie DeNofrio’s Impossibly Elaborate (and Strangely Hypnotic!) Tattoo

Chapter 24: The Family Stone

Chapter 25: The Sun Door

Chapter 26: The Oversoul

Chapter 27: Blue Creek, Michigan, and Other Lives

Dedication

Acknowledgments

By Michael Poore

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