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Prologue
- The Tea Set
- At Least Ten Questions
Book I: California – Chapter One
- Why I Married the First Man Who Asked Me
- How I Met Him
- The Dance Floor: Preamble
- On the Dance Floor
- Surrender: Preamble
- Surrender: Tuesday, August 14
- Downtown
- Not for the Japanese
Book I: California – Chapter Two
- Hill Kisses
- Confessions
- Spaces
- Playing like Idiots
- One More Bombshell
- His Big Hurry
Book I: California – Chapter Three
- Earthquake Country, when I was fifteen and my brother twelve.
- Losing My First Job
- Beaten
- And Andy
- Buried Treasure
- Biding My Time
- My Parents’ House
- Where to Go, What to Wear
Book I: California – Chapter Four
- My Father’s Suits
- His Study
- Haven
- The Wall of Maps
- Fear of Falling
- Losses
- What Happened Next
Book I: California – Chapter Five
- Out for a beer, one night
- Me and the Boys
- Mary’s Stories
- Back at the Table
- The Point of Talking
- Two Steps Forward . . .
- Reluctant Hero
- Slogging through Mud
- Translation Lessons
- And all that time—
- The Daring Young Man (and Woman) on the Flying Trapeze
Book I: California – Chapter Six
- When I was Twelve
- And Again
- Up a Tree
- Rumblings
- The Upstairs Landing
- “I don’t know.”
- Breathless
- Longing
- Tennis Truce
Book I: California – Chapter Seven
- War Stories by Candlelight
- “Exactly,”
- Acceptance
- Caveat
- Later that Night
- The Curious Way One Thing Leads to Another
Book I: California – Chapter Eight
- The Final Battle
- The First Day
- A Different Table
- And the Boys
- Rumors
- The Argument Heats Up
- Following a Lighter Vein
- The Widening Gyre
- That Day on the Hill
- The Shirts of George the Third
- Why we were there
Book I: California – Chapter Nine
- Trapped Coyote
- Transitions
- Counting Rhyme
- December
Book I: California – Chapter Ten
- Dresses
- Saturday Night
- Sunday Morning
- Proposals
Book I: California – Chapter Eleven
- Going Home
- To the Mountains
Book I: California – Chapter Twelve
- Night Rounds
- Changing Bandages
- Outside the Door
- My First Death
- What Rose Said
- Redwoods
- Those Three Days
Book I: California – Chapter Thirteen
- Juanita
- Broken Hearts
- The Start of a Great Friendship
- Fictions and Fallacies
Book I: California – Chapter Fourteen
- Endings
- Miracles and Magic
- Split Bodies
- The Aftermath
- A Failure of Imagination
- Separate Lives
- The Next Bed
- Sunday in October
Book I: California – Chapter Fifteen
- Cowboy Boots
- The Story
- First Fight
- There’s No Such Thing as One-Way Communication
- Three More Days
- Getting It Straight
Book I: California – Chapter Sixteen
- On the Bus
- Signing
- Andy Takes a Stand
- In the Glow
- After the Dishes are Cleared
- Of Hats and Hedges
- Dancing into a Corner
Book I: California – Chapter Seventeen
- Return Trip
- The Bargains We Make
- Be Careful What You Wish For
- Forgiveness
- Damaged Goods
- Laying the Plot
- Pulling It Off
- Danny’s Leg
Book I: California – Chapter Eighteen
- Damages
- Two Dialogues
- Monologue
- Uniforms
- Bells
Prologue versions
- Prologue (first version)
- Prologue (second version)
  - The Tea Set (2)
  - At Least Ten Questions (2)
Earlier versions
- Bells (original)

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