Contents
Cover
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue
1 THE WIDOW’S MITE
1 A man who buys books because they’re pretty
2 A killing, and a man who tried to walk on water
3 Fake gold, other people’s houses, and the finest man I never knew
4 Dreaming that a crooked man will straighten up and fly right
5 When God blinks
6 The free show
7 No papers on him
8 In the mouth of the machine
9 On the wings of a great speckled bird
10 If you got to kill somebody, better it ain’t family
11 Under a hateful sky
12 Getting above your raising
13 Fine qualities
14 100 miles per hour, upside down and sideways
15 The usual suspects
2 LIES TO MY MOTHER
16 In the temple
17 Saturdays in October
18 White tuxedoes
19 The price tag on heaven
20 Under Vulcan’s hammer
21 Running hot
22 What if
23 Paradise
24 Miami, in madness
25 Eating life
26 Tap-tap
27 Snow in a can
28 The interview for the Ivy League
29 Perfume on a hog
30 New York
31 Coming home
32 Dining out with no money, and living with no life
33 Buying bodies, eating lobster
3 GETTING EVEN WITH LIFE
34 Gone South
35 Abigail
36 Mrs. Smith, and family
37 Monsters
38 Validation
39 1.3 acres
40 The same
41 Who we are
42 Safe in the dark
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