L Is for Lion by Lanzillotto, Annie Rachele -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Prologue: The Blue Suitcase part one: Bronx Tomboy

Eat with Guys You Trust Breakfast Is to Coat the Stomach The X Stoop The Return of the Rust A Good Eater The Tin Ceiling Sidewalk Licking Batteries Teaspoons and Heatpipes Kitchen Bird Kindergarten, Boot Camp: 1968 Sister Rosaria Quicksand Lasagna Vows Ravioli, Homing Pigeons, and Teletype Machines Grandpop, the Hook, and the Eyebrow Made of Rubber Sister Giuseppina Sister Ercolina Playing War Lead Pipe, Montezuma, Icicle Hand to Hand The Return of the Lasagna Street How to Catch a Flyball in Oncoming Traffic The Names of Horses Rook to Queen Four Burning Rubber and Penmanship Trestles and Love Silence, Violence The Blue Angel Bronx County Family Courthouse Parkchester Poseidon Adventure The Lady in Black Fast Break

part two: Educationa Girl

The Temporary Apartment Permanent Wave Useless Expertise Hunger Beats Agida Sistemazione Walk Softly but Carry a Big Pockabook Lunch Is to Clean the Blood Slow, Loud, and Clear Asthma, Green Money, and the Feast Brakeman Outfield Greens My Mother, the Plaintiff Aunty Patty's Bullfight You're Just Like Your Father Junkie Pride Mary Perry College Entrance Strike One Fontanelle Aurelius The Miracle Worker of 233rd Street

part three: Kimosabe

The Best Place to Have Cancer Room 621 Shake 'n Bake The Fastigium Dope and Demerol The Pipeline Truckstop Paranoia Chemistry Amara Brazil Upside Down Belly Up Overheating Triple Boiling Point Eat 'Til You Sweat The Tumor Board The Radioactive Man Says, “Don't Give Up the Ship!” Thoracotomy One Mis-sip-pi Magnetic Lace Lesbianism, Suicide, or the Nunnery How to Wake Up a Marine in a Foxhole Red Death Interventions Falling and Flying Civilian Life Sucks Deep Bell

part four: How to Cook a Heart

Wallid Walla Bint Equator Crossings Bronx Italian Butch Freedom Never Come Out in a Lincoln Continental A Nightclub Named Devotion “Roma o Morte!” Vrrooooom! “Cosa Mangia Oggi!” My Mother's Aorta a'Schapett Shave My Head Enter Audrey Lauren Kindred Rachele's Pocketbook Fritatta How to Poke a Guy's Eyes Out How to Cook a Heart

part five: Annie's Parts

Mr. Fixit Six Places to Buy Milk My Father, Marconi, and Me Sciamannin’ Horizontal People Radioactive Feast Limoncello and the Black Bra Garlic, the Ave Maria, and the Blue Leg Cittadinanza Assassination Focaccia Spearmint Gum Cure One Day My Horse Will Come In Madeleine and the Magic Biscotti How GranmaRose Became a Peach Tree Fruttificare The Lasagna Stands Alone Three Days from Eternity Don't Make 'Em Burn Pipe Dreams The Little Fish and the Big Ocean Three Hundred Cream Puffs and the Illusion Veil Lingua Madre Sì o No? A Couple of Teaspoons of Coffee and a Couple of Drops of Milk Becoming GranmaRose Peach Tree

Glossary Acknowledgments: Exquisite Pleasure Credits Author's page