Contents
Part I
Daredevils and Invisible Friends
Levitation Club and the End of the World
Prayers, Mantras, and How to Swear
Part II
Ghosts of the Civil War
Crossing Wide Spaces
Discovering Fire
Part III
The Big Job
The Crossing
Borrowing Faces
Part IV
The Hunt
Jack Kerouac Dreams Elizabeth Bennet
The Flood
Part V
Imaginary Families
Cures for Hunger
The Longest Highway
Epilogue
Author’s Note
Note for the Revised Edition
Acknowledgments