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Winner of the 2008 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence

"Weaver has crafted a virtual planet in this book with plenty of alternate geographies for readers of all flavors and stripes. Marvelous. Huge. Prodigious.”

—North American Review

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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication, Frontispiece
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  1. Contents
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  1. Gold
  1. Ego
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  1. A Meditation for My Son
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  1. Sandy Point
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  1. The Madman Raises the Dead
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  1. An Improbable Mecca
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  1. The Peacock Feather in Texas
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  1. The Poet Reclining
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  1. High Sierra
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  1. Water
  1. I
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  1. Radio Days
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  1. Beginnings
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  1. Lamentations
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  1. White Shoes and Swings
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  1. Hershey’s Chocolate
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  1. Mt. Zion Baptist
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  1. The Robe
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  1. The Dogs
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  1. The Appaloosa
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  1. A Woman From Fredericksburg
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  1. Science
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  1. Going to Church with C.W.
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  1. In C.W.’s Closet
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  1. Dialing for Dollars
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  1. A Maxim
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  1. Wood
  1. LIV
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  1. Sears Roebuck
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  1. American Income
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  1. Fifteen Years
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  1. Baby Boy
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  1. The Lawn
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  1. The Poets
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  1. The Southpaw
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  1. Rambling
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  1. My Father’s First Baseball Game
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  1. The Final Trains of August
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  1. The Picnic, an Homage to Civil Rights
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  1. Thelonious
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  1. The Last Jazz Club
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  1. Composition for White Critics...
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  1. Sam’s
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  1. Zombie Dance, Tapping the Bloodroot
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  1. Fire
  1. LXIII
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  1. My Heart
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  1. Tuna Fish
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  1. Sub Shop Girl
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  1. Reunions
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  1. PMS
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  1. An Elegy for Lorraine Hansberry
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  1. Friendship, 1994
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  1. House Training
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  1. Adam and Eve
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  1. The Model
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  1. Lovers with Flowers
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  1. Self-Portrait
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  1. Solitude
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  1. The Path
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  1. Damo Before the Wall
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  1. Earth
  1. XXIX
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  1. Borders
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  1. Water Song
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  1. Luxembourg Garden
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  1. New England
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  1. My Father’s Geography
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  1. Theme for Intermediate Chinese
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  1. Notes
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  1. Acknowledgments
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