Table of Contents
Praise
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Title Page
Introduction
Epigraph
I. Holding Breath
The Chronology of Water
Metaphor
On Sound and Speech
The Best Friend
Suitcase
Deliverance
Love Grenade I
The Other Lubbock
Zombie
What It’s Not
Crooked Lovesong
Family Drama
This is Not About my Sister
Ash
II. Under Blue
Baptismal
Swimming with Amateurs
Father
How To Ride a Bike
The Less Than Merry Pranksters
III. The Wet
A Happy Childhood
Illness as Metaphor
A Burning
The Hairy Girls
Nemesis
Love Grenade II
A Body in a Kayak
Writing
About Hair and Skin
Harder
My Mother Demonology
IV. Resuscitations
A Drowning Scene
Distilled
My Lover, Writing
Short Story
Gray Matter
Secular Miracle
Dreaming in Women
V. The Other Side of Drowning
Run On
Collision as Metaphor
How to Love Your Mother After She’s Dead
Your Tax Dollars At Work
Conversion
Ecstatic State
The Scarlett Letter
Sun
In the Company of Men
A Sanctuary
Angina
How to Hold Your Breath
Water
The Other Side of Drowning
À La Recherché du Temps Perdu
A Small Ocean
Wisdom is a Motherfucker
Interview with Lidia Yuknavitch
Copyright Page
