Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Prologue

Part I: 1959

Chapter One: A Place Called the Moscatellis

Chapter Two: The Dangling Button

Chapter Three: Franco-American Spaghetti

Chapter Four: Shamrock Barrettes

Chapter Five: Already

Chapter Six: The File

Chapter Seven: The Biggest Word in the Sky

Chapter Eight: The Fifth Time

Chapter Nine: The Trouble with Girls

Chapter Ten: The Coward

Chapter Eleven: Three Faces and a Clatter of Pennies

Part II: 1962

Chapter One: A Stone in My Pocket

Chapter Two: The Girl in the Waves

Chapter Three: Killed by a Cat

Chapter Four: The Girl Beneath the Yellow Leaves

Chapter Five: The Maledizione

Chapter Six: Chickens on a Conveyer Belt

Chapter Seven: My Father’s Victory

Chapter Eight: Get Up

Part III: 1966–1968

Chapter One: Lilacs in November

Chapter Two: Come On, Agnes

Chapter Three: James Kovacs Sr. Makes the Paper One More Time

Chapter Four: Zaidie Writes a Valedictorian Speech

Chapter Five: The Magnet

Chapter Six: All Saints

Chapter Seven: The Inferno

Chapter Eight: Why I Stopped

Chapter Nine: Louie Takes a Walk

Chapter Ten: Freedom

Chapter Eleven: A Gun Appears in the Story

Chapter Twelve: A Basket of Stones

Chapter Thirteen: Einstein and Me

Chapter Fourteen: The Golden Tree

Chapter Fifteen: Before

Chapter Sixteen: The Most Beautiful River I Never Saw

Chapter Seventeen: The Last Brave Thing I Ever Did

Chapter Eighteen: The Flutter

Chapter Nineteen: A Jade Elephant

Chapter Twenty: Migration

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Patry Francis

Copyright

About the Publisher