Shadows -- Hello from upside down -- Hurry, hurry -- Firestarter -- Pinwheel -- Turtles, turtles, turtles -- One might wonder -- Everybody has something -- Do you hear the people sing? -- Calm yourself -- Seriously -- To the woman screaming on the quad -- The six stages of finding out you have high cholesterol -- The swing -- Fragments -- Bomb shelter -- Tough girl -- Worst-case scenario -- Rescue practice -- Homesick and spinning -- The great fortune of ordinary sadness -- Close calls -- The opposite of a daydream -- Home again, home again -- Spatchcock this -- Investment pieces -- Face hunger -- In memory of turtles lost -- I would like to report an attack upon my soul -- Another box, another Christmas -- Stay.
Summary:
"A poignant and powerful new memoir-in-essays that tackles the big questions of life, death, and existential fear with humor and hope"-- Provided by publisher.
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