Contents

FOREWORD

PROLOGUE: The Attic

CHAPTER 1: On the Street Where We Live

CHAPTER 2: Nothing from Nothing Is Nothing

CHAPTER 3: If We Won’t Be Happy, Who Will?

CHAPTER 4: Madness and Marriage

CHAPTER 5: Resistance and Devotion

CHAPTER 6: Death

CHAPTER 7: Shock

CHAPTER 8: The Best-Laid Plans

CHAPTER 9: Redlined

CHAPTER 10: Civil Rights

CHAPTER 11: Flipped

CHAPTER 12: Blockbusters

CHAPTER 13: A New Start

CHAPTER 14: The Long Goodbyes

CHAPTER 15: Travelin’ Man

CHAPTER 16: Wanna Trade Places?

CHAPTER 17: Tenth Anniversary

CHAPTER 18: A Vision of Decline

CHAPTER 19: Barbara

CHAPTER 20: Thief, Robber, Crook

CHAPTER 21: Travels with Dad

CHAPTER 22: The Asylum

CHAPTER 23: Black and White

CHAPTER 24: Brothers and Sisters

CHAPTER 25: Not Unhappy

CHAPTER 26: Saturday Night Burger

CHAPTER 27: The Tether and the Dream

CHAPTER 28: Up in Flames

CHAPTER 29: An Island in a Sea of Destruction

CHAPTER 30: Be Still, I Am Thy God

CHAPTER 31: A New Life

CHAPTER 32: Unraveling

CHAPTER 33: Riots Redux

CHAPTER 34: Convulsions

CHAPTER 35: News from the Front

CHAPTER 36: Sexual Politics

CHAPTER 37: Moving On

CHAPTER 38: Disgraced

CHAPTER 39: A New Roommate

CHAPTER 40: No End in Sight

CHAPTER 41: Home Alone

CHAPTER 42: Mom’s World

CHAPTER 43: End of an Era

CHAPTER 44: Dad’s World

CHAPTER 45: A Convergence of Change

CHAPTER 46: Not of Our Choosing

CHAPTER 47: Reconciliation

NOTES

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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