Contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Welcome
4. Dedication
5. Epigraph
6. Part I
   Survivors
   1. Foley’s Pond
   2. Occidental Hotel
   3. Spokane
   4. The Poet
   5. Herb and Rosalie Swanson at the Cocoanut Grove
   6. My old boss E.J. once told me he was famous for goofy hats
   7. At the Kitchen Table
   8. Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, 1875
   9. Railroad Men’s Home
   10. Plaza Revolución, Mexico City, 6 a.m.
   11. Horace and Josephine
   12. I was six, maybe seven months old
   13. Pampkin’s Lament
   14. Lincoln
   15. Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge
7. Part II
   The Normal
   1. Nathan Leopold Writes to Mr. Felix Kleczka of 5383 S. Blackstone
   2. At the end of our street was a commune in a log mansion
   3. Detamble
   4. Dyke Bridge
   5. The Mayor’s Dream
   6. Fourteen-Year-Olds, Indiana Dunes, Late Afternoon
   7. Denny Coughlin: In Memory
   8. The Divorce
   9. 1979
   10. The Vac-Haul
8. Part III
   In Moscow Everything Will Be Different
   1. The time I said it was only an emotional affair
   2. At the Fairmont
   3. Roman Morning
   4. Eisendrath
   5. Woman in a Dubrovnik Café
   6. Reverend Hrncirik Receives an Airmail Package
   7. Call these the meditations of an overweight junior lifeguard
   8. Waukegan Story
   9. Lubyanka Prison, Moscow, 1940
   10. February 26, 1995
   11. Late Dusk, Joslin, Illinois
9. Part IV
   Country of Us
   1. Waldheim
   2. Renters
   3. On the 14
   4. Longfellow
   5. Paddy Bauler in a Quiet Moment
   6. Geraldo, 1986
   7. Harold Washington Walks at Midnight
   8. From the Collected Stories of Edmund Jerry (E. J.) Hahn, Vol. IV
   9. The Gate
   10. A couple of years before I was born
   11. My mother stands by the window
   12. It may have been in The Wapshot Chronicle
   13. The Moors of Chicago
   14. Belief, 1999
   15. Irv Pincus used to steal lamps from Kaplan’s Furniture
   16. Shhhhhh, Arthur’s Studying
10. Acknowledgments
11. Also by Peter Orner
12. Praise for Peter Orner’s Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge
13. Reading Group Guide
14. A Conversation with Peter Orner
15. Questions and Topics for Discussion
16. Newsletters
17. Copyright