Description |
83 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Truth -- Transcend -- The female of the species -- Dirty girl -- Armadillo -- Gospel: Texas -- Halfway to July -- The socratic method -- Oklahoma -- 1999 -- Gospel: Rumi -- New Year -- The worst ghosts -- Telling the story right -- Call me to prayer -- Gospel: Beirut -- Nineteen in retrograde -- Pray like you mean it -- Not a mosque -- You're not a girl in a movie -- Step one: admit powerlessness -- Tattler -- Common ancestors -- Chaos theory -- Honeymoon -- When I bit into the plum the ants flooded out -- Instructions for a wife -- Gospel: newlyweds -- Gospel: insomnia -- The temperance (XIV) card -- Even when I listen, I'm lying -- Step eight: make amends -- A love letter to my panic // A love letter to my husband -- I'm not speaking first -- Step four: moral inventory -- Either I'm coming back or I'm not -- Unmarried -- The honest wife -- Turnpike // Ghost -- Self-portrait with no more wine -- Step two: higher power -- Gospel: Diaspora -- Wife in reverse -- Heirloom -- I can't tell which haircut in the photograph is me -- Can I apologize now? -- Ordinary scripture -- Dear Layal, -- On the death of WWE professional wrestler Chyna -- Cliffhanger -- Aleppo -- Upstate I -- Upstate II -- Thirty -- Acknowledgments. |
Added Title |
29th year |
ISBN |
9781328511942 (trade paper) |
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