Contents
Prologue: American Idol
PART I: DISINTEGRATING NICELY
Chapter One: Labor Day
Chapter Two: Terminal Island
Chapter Three: Avalon, Present Day
Chapter Four: Fantasy Island
Chapter Five: Flying Fish
Chapter Six: Return To Sender
Chapter Seven: Big Game
Chapter Eight: The Butcher
Chapter Nine: Charcoal-Seared Steak
Chapter Ten: Fish Head
Chapter Eleven: Bohemian Paradise
Chapter Twelve: Catch-22
Chapter Thirteen: Buffalo
Chapter Fourteen: The Office
Chapter Fifteen: Pig
Chapter Sixteen: Escape From Devil’s Island
PART II: ANGEL’S TRUMPET
Chapter Seventeen: War Dogs
Chapter Eighteen: We’re Shady Isle
Chapter Nineteen: Pismo Beach
Chapter Twenty: Cuckoo Clock
Chapter Twenty-One: Buffalo
Chapter Twenty-Two: Easter Parade
Chapter Twenty-Three
Act One: The White Bull
Act Two: Nativity
Chapter Twenty-Four
Act Three: The Mare
Act Four: Foul Play
Chapter Twenty-Five
Act Five: Resurrection
Chapter Twenty-Six
Act Six: Salvation
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Steel Rain
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Pit Stop
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Kodachrome
Chapter Thirty: Father’s Day
Chapter Thirty-One: The Isthmus
Chapter Thirty-Two: Big Fish
Chapter Thirty-Three: Topsy-Turvy
Acknowledgments