Contents
One: Recovery Isn’t as Easy as It Looks
Two: Junior High Stinks in More Ways Than One
Three: Meanwhile, Back on the Farm
Five: Grandma Underneath It All
Six: A Kid Knows When Something Is Wrong
Seven: The Pittiest Pit of Your Stomach
Eight: Mama Reveals Her Secret at Last
Nine: How Myra Sue Spells Humiliation
Ten: Dirty Details of a Rotten, Horrendous Day
Eleven: The Longest Night of My Whole Entire Life, and Then Some
Twelve: When the Good Lord Has a Happy Grin
Thirteen: Some Ideas Are Better Than Others
Fourteen: One’s Own Personal Space
Fifteen: Farewell, Harvard Beets, and Hello, Peanut Butter and Jelly
Eighteen: The Preacher Comes to Our House
Nineteen: Ian and Isabel Go to Church
Twenty: These Good Ideas Have to Stop
Twenty-One: How Crazy Does a Two-Edged Sword Have to Be?
Twenty-Two: A Teary, Snotty, Blubbery Mess
Twenty-Three: Not-So-Silent Night
Twenty-Four: There Are No Small Parts
Twenty-Five: Practice Makes Perfect. I Hope
Twenty-Six: Ian and Isabel Go Home
Twenty-Seven: The Show Goes On
Twenty-Eight: Myra Sue in the Spotlight
Thirty: Waiting Rooms and the Waiting That We Do
Thirty-One: Unto Us a Child Is Born