Contents

CHAPTER ONE

The Invention of Money

CHAPTER TWO

Belated

CHAPTER THREE

Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

CHAPTER FOUR

The Sweetheart of My Youth

CHAPTER FIVE

The Place I Really Live

CHAPTER SIX

One Reason I Don’t Go to the Beach Anymore

CHAPTER SEVEN

Carmela in the Flats at Thirty-One

CHAPTER EIGHT

The Origin of the Species

CHAPTER NINE

The Wages of Sin

CHAPTER TEN

Fanelli Does Funtown

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Ball Gowns of the Eighties

CHAPTER TWELVE

The Do’s and Don’ts of Rising and Falling

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Trotmeier Takes a Drive

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Touching Strangers

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Coming Home to Roost

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Packing Up the Circus

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

In the Grip

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

Table Hopping

CHAPTER NINETEEN

What They Sing About, When They Sing in Heaven

CHAPTER TWENTY

The Eleven-Foot Hooker Walks the Walk

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

The Fall of Princes

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

She Walks in Beauty

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

Coda

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About Algonquin