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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Epigraph

Part I: The Vigil

Chapter 1 - The Message

Chapter 2 - Car Wreck

Chapter 3 - The First Wrong Things

Chapter 4 - “Pneumonia”

Chapter 5 - Telemetry

Chapter 6 - E-mail Record

Chapter 7 - E. coli

Chapter 8 - Hospital Vigil(s)

Chapter 9 - Jasmine

Chapter 10 - Vigil

Chapter 11 - E-mail Record

Chapter 12 - Memory Pools

Chapter 13 - “I’m Not Crying for Any Reason”

Chapter 14 - The Call

Part II: Free Fall

Chapter 15 - “The Golden Vanity”

Chapter 16 - Yellow Pages

Chapter 17 - The Arrow

Chapter 18 - E-mail Record

Chapter 19 - Last Words

Chapter 20 - “You’ve Said Good-bye”

Chapter 21 - Double Plot

Chapter 22 - Cat Pee

Chapter 23 - Probate

Chapter 24 - “Sympathy Gift Basket”

Chapter 25 - The Betrayal

Chapter 26 - The Artisans

Chapter 27 - E-mail Record

Part III: The Basilisk

Chapter 28 - “Beady Dead Eyes Like Gems”

Chapter 29 - The Lost Husband

Chapter 30 - “How Are You?”

Chapter 31 - “Bells for John Whiteside’s Daughter”

Chapter 32 - The Nest

Chapter 33 - Ghost Rooms

Chapter 34 - E-mail Record

Chapter 35 - Fury!

Chapter 36 - Oasis

Chapter 37 - Bruised Knees

Chapter 38 - A Dream of Such Happiness!

Chapter 39 - “We Want to See You Soon”

Chapter 40 - Moving Away

Chapter 41 - “Won’t Be Seeing You for a While”

Chapter 42 - “Can’t Find You Where Are You”

Chapter 43 - “I Am Sorry to Inform You”

Part IV: Purgatory, Hell

Chapter 44 - “Neither Joyce Nor I Can Come to the Phone Right Now”

Chapter 45 - The Military Order of the Purple Heart

Chapter 46 - In Motion!

Chapter 47 - In Motion!—“Still Alive”

Chapter 48 - In Motion! —“Mouth of the Rat”

Chapter 49 - In Motion!— “The Wonder Woman of American Literature”

Chapter 50 - In Motion!— “You Can’t Sit There”

Chapter 51 - “Never Forget”

Chapter 52 - The Widow’s Secret

Chapter 53 - Congratulations! I

Chapter 54 - Congratulations! II

Chapter 55 - E-mail Record

Chapter 56 - The Cache

Chapter 57 - Morbidity Studies

Chapter 58 - The Intruder

Part V: “You Looked So Happy”

Chapter 59 - Too Soon!

Chapter 60 - “Leaving Las Vegas”

Chapter 61 - “The Unlived . . .”

Chapter 62 - Cruel Crude Stupid “Well-Intentioned”

Chapter 63 - “If . . .”

Chapter 64 - “Never, Ever That Again”

Chapter 65 - The “Real World”

Chapter 66 - Little Love Story

Chapter 67 - Tulips

Chapter 68 - Please Forgive!

Chapter 69 - “Happy, and Excited”

Chapter 70 - Blood in the Water!

Chapter 71 - Walking Wounded

Chapter 72 - Dead Woman Walking

Chapter 73 - Taboo

Chapter 74 - “Ashamed to Be ‘White’ ”

Chapter 75 - It Made No Difference

Chapter 76 - Sinkholes

Chapter 77 - The Garden

Chapter 78 - The Pilgrimage

Chapter 79 - “You Looked So Happy”

Chapter 80 - Black Mass I

Chapter 81 - Black Mass II

Chapter 82 - “Good Girl!”

Chapter 83 - The Resolution

Chapter 84 - “Did Ray Like Swing?”

Chapter 85 - “Title”

Chapter 86 - “Your Husband Is Still Alive”

Epilogue

Three Small Sightings in August

The Widow’s Handbook

Acknowledgments

By the same author

Copyright

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