Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Part I. For Men Without Sons There Is Always This
Photograph of Her Parents, Dancing: 1956
Fathers with Daughters
Barbie, Ken, and Emma's Daddy
Emma Remembers Something of the World Series
Sometimes Our Gifts Are Small and Fast
My Mother's Story About the Dog
The Swing
With Respect for Distance
Part II. When You love Someone for a Long Time
Sunday Baking
For an Anniversary
The Promise of Good Food
Coming Home from Niagara Falls
Out Walking
Miracle of Earth
The Business of Knives
The Mouths of Women
Neighbors
Grief Comes in Smallest Ways
Telephone Call
Lines Too Long for a Postcard
She Writes to Her Lover, Whose Hair Is Thick and Clean
In a Town Too Cold for Baseball
Recalling Warm Weather
Kind of Like Camping: A Love Story
When You Love Someone for a Long Time
Part III. Take This Advice
The Wife of Noah Comforts the Young Bride of Their Son
For My Sister, Brenda: To Be Read While Riding in the Pickup to North Carolina
Bow Fishing with My Sister
More Moons Than One
So This Is What Happened
Having Gone Alone to Her Hotel Room After the Conference. An Aging Professor Suffers Through Her Prayers
And I Like the Sucking Sound the Air Brakes Make
Why People Move
In a Small Tavern Off Highway 395. She Gives This Guy Her Best Ear
Her Kiss. Redeemed
This, The Body
Take This Advice
About the Author