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Contents

Prologue: Homerica

PART I

1 Little House in the Thistles

Glen Avon, California, 1963

2 The First Bullet

Fine, Near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 1876

3 The Dance

Ruby Triboulet, Colorado Prairie, 1921

4 The Country Squire

Riverside, California, 1973

5 Nurse-in-Charge

Rosa Leu, Aeschlen, Switzerland, 1944

6 Hey Now

Riverside, California, March 1974

7 Olympia—One Can Could Get You Pregnant

Riverside, California, June 1974

8 Daisy Belle

Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1915

9 Driveway #1—The First Love Letter

Riverside, California, May 1976

PART II

10 Castas

11 Mulato

Riverside and Los Angeles, California, 1979

12 The Second Bullet

Jennie Stevenson, Outside Tulsa, Oklahoma, Early 1900s

13 Fruitful

14 The Toast

Riverside, California, 1983

15 Fruitful #2

Riverside, California, 1989

PART III

16 Run the World

Riverside, California, 1989

17 Wild Things

Riverside, California, 1995

18 Pig

Rubidoux and Riverside, California, 1997 (South Carolina, Oklahoma, Florida, Georgia)

19 The Santa Ana River

20 A Secondhand Lonely

Riverside, California, 1998

21 Dew Point—A Pack of Four

Riverside, California, Endless

22 Love Strands

Riverside, California, 2000

23 Crosses and Missions

California, 1998, 2000, 2004

24 Coach—Driveway #2

Riverside, California, 2004

25 The Batmobile

Riverside, California, 2005

26 The Yard Couch

Riverside, California, 2008

27 Grizzly

Riverside, California (Tulsa, Oklahoma; Fraser, Colorado)

28 Nine

29 Al Green—Driveway #1, The Second Love Letter

Riverside, California

30 Travels with My Ex in the Time of Revenue

Orange County, California, 2009

PART IV

31 Switzerland, Loveland, Cuddyland

Always, January 12, 1950, Always

32 Bring Me Your Smartest Girl

Riverside, California, 2008; Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1925

33 Kin—White House #1

Los Angeles, California, 2009 (Tulsa, Oklahoma; Riverside, California)

34 A Place of Style and Refuge—White House #2

Riverside, California, December 2011

35 Letter to My Nephew—Our Dungeon Shook (After James Baldwin)

Riverside, California, 2012

36 American Human Not Interested

37 Braid/Züpfe

Los Angeles, California, 2017

38 Ancestry

Riverside and Santa Barbara, California; Ibadan, Nigeria, 2018

39 Saphina

Tennessee, 1870

40 The Work of Women—Evaporation and Memory, White House #3

Riverside, California, 2018

Acknowledgments