• Chapter 1 "All, all is beautiful, careening as we are."
  
  
• Chapter 2 "John "Jack" Flynn, b. Massena, NY 11/8/43, p. rh."
  
  
• Chapter 3 "It was possible that Aunt Bertie could have been the kind of aunt who is maternal."
  
  
• Chapter 4 "A woman floated on a rubber raft, not far, not close to the dock."
  
  
• Chapter 5 "Why'd you choose Iowa, Jack?"
  
  
• Chapter 6 "Molly LaChance feared dolls' eyes, the blue foil eyes of chocolate rabbits, bathrooms..."
  
  
• Chapter 7 "Restless Walker was very like a spider, an old Daddy Longlegs..."
  
  
• Chapter 8 "Bertie Flynn lined up the cigarette filters like spent cartridges on the table before her."
  
  
• Chapter 9 "Emma drove southward into gathering rain..."
  
  
• Chapter 10 "Emma was so sick she could just drive you nuts sometimes..."
  
  
• Chapter 11 "Like lifting a frog, the legs dangling limp..."
  
  
• Chapter 12 "Wolfman, he had an enterprise, you dig, a regular satisfaction, an amazing grace."
  
  
• Chapter 13 "In time Emma faded from view, a woman waving, a dot, then gone and the river turned."
  
  
• Chapter 14 "For the old woman was to sleep, Restless he went to see who was at the door..."
  
  
• Chapter 15 "Emma watched them out into the channel, saw them nose around the islands, then disappear..."
  
  
• Chapter 16 "Big people were mostly alike, men anyway..."
  
  
• Chapter 17 "My, he was a handsome one, tall and fine-boned..."
  
  
• Chapter 18 "She had seen it before, both bigger and smaller, not propped as this on a rack of crossed timbers, but hanging in the air as if in a dream..."
  
  
• Chapter 19 "They met him at the ballpark. Bertie wore a great wide straw hat on account of the sun, Emma wore a long lavender dress and they sat in the bare bleacher stands, watching while Mr. Walker pitched to Wolfman from the peach basket full of balls they had taken from Bertie's closet."

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