""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1. The Magician""; ""2. Shiksa in My Living Room""; ""3. Chickens of Suburbia""; ""4. Sham Poodle Dreams""; ""5. A Tourist, of Sorts""; ""6. My Life as a Hippie Chick""; ""7. Deathbed Pearls""; ""8. My People""; ""9. A Hushed Blue Underworld""; ""10. Little Pink Hatchling""; ""11. Slow Train to the Forbidden City""; ""12. New York: 1986�89""; ""13. Women of Pompeii""; ""14. The Weight of Stuff""; ""15. A Certain Shade of Blue""; ""16. The Last Days of Disco Donut (1987�89)""
""17. Mongrels of Salamanca""""18. Feminist Christmas Tree Farm""; ""9. The Girls of Usually""; ""20. The Lost Language of Lox""; ""21. Death and Furniture""; ""22. Transitions""; ""23. Slim-Fast Vacation""; ""24. Unloading Bones""; ""25. Father's Advice""; ""26. The Golden Cord""; ""27. Into the Arms of Strangers""; ""28. Fahrenheit or Celsius: Long Distance Love in Degrees""; ""29. OpenWide66""; ""30. Dating My Mother""; ""31. The Big SMoke""; ""32. The Woman who Owned a Place in Flannery O'Connor's Hometown""; ""Epilogue (2014)""; ""About the Author""