How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) by Barbara Kingsolver -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Publisher’s Note Contents 1: How to Fly

How to Drink Water When There Is Wine How to Have a Child How to Cure Sweet Potatoes How to Shear a Sheep How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) How to Give Thanks for a Broken Leg How to Survive This How to Do Absolutely Nothing How to Lose That Stubborn Weight How to Get a Divorce How to Be Married How to Knit a Sweater (a Realist’s Prayer) How to Love Your Neighbor How to Be Hopeful

2: Pellegrinaggio

I. Pellegrinaggio II. The Roman Circus III. On the Piazza IV. Into the Abruzzo V. In Torricella, Finding Her Mother’s House VI. Circumnavigating Torricella Peligna VII. Pompeii VIII. At the Top of Mount Vesuvius IX. Swimming in the Bay of Naples X. On the Train to Sicily XI. Monreale XII. Lemon-Orchard Blue XIII. The Road to Erice Is Paved with Intentions XIV. Palermo

3: This Is How They Come Back to Us

Burying Ground This Is How They Come Back to Us Passing Death The Visitation Long Division My Great-Grandmother’s Plate Thank-You Note for a Quilt My Mother’s Last Forty Minutes

4: Walking Each Other Home

By the Roots My First Derby Party Snow Day Six Women Swimming Naked in the Ocean Courtship Dance on Playa Luria Will Creation Stories Meadowview Elementary Spelling Bee Blow Me— After Walking Each Other Home

5: Dancing with the Devil

Thief Dancing with the Devil: Advice for the Female Poet Cage of Heaven Insomniac Villanelle My Afternoon with The Postman

6: Where It Begins

Where It Begins

7: The Nature of Objects

Ghost Pipes The Nature of Objects Come August, a Seven-Day Rain Ephemera Love Poem, with Birds Swimming in the Wamba Cradle Down Under The Hands of Trees Mussel, Minnow Matabele Great Barrier Forests of Antarctica

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