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Index
Cover
Other Titles
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction by Catherine Lacey
Part I: The Journal I did not Keep
The Raggaschlucht
The Fountain Pen
Black Bread
Failure
Sardellen Butter
A Child’s War
Part II: Fiction
New and Uncollected Fiction
Dandelion
Divorce
Ladies’ Days of Martinis and Forgetting
How Lotte Lost Bessie
Ladies’ Lunch
Making Good
Hilda
Fugue in Cell Minor
Going to Hell
Noah’s Daughter
Selected Fiction
From Other People’s Houses
The Children’s Transport
Mrs. Levine
From Her First American
The First American
The Summer
From Lucinella
Lucinella Apologizes to the World for Using It
Visit from the Gods
Quarter Turn
From Shakespeare’s Kitchen
The Reverse Bug
Other People’s Deaths
Leslie’s Shoes
From Half the Kingdom
The Arbus Factor
The Ice Worm
The Drowned Man
Part III: Nonfiction
Memoir
My Grandfather’s Walking Stick, or the Pink Lie
Spry for Frying
The Moral in the Convex Mirror
The Mural
Prince Charles and My Mother
The Secret Spaces of Childhood: My First Bedroom
Essays
Memory: The Problems of Imagining the Past
The Gardners’ Habitats
Jane Austen on Our Unwillingness to be Parted from Our Money
Passing Time: a Review of Nog by Rudolph Wurlitzer
Translating the Olden Times
Table Talk: “Nice”
Plots and Manipulations
Afterword to the 2018 UK Edition of Other People’s Houses
How to Be Old
Columns
From The New York Times’ “Hers” Column
On Goodness
On Argument
On Courtesy
From The Forward Column on the Weekly Bible Portion
What Did Adam Know and When Did He Know It?
A Spoiled Child
Michal in Love
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