Contents -- Foreword -- Prologue -- I. The Signs -- First Symptoms -- Faint -- Returning Home -- Their Repetitions -- Sweet Potatoes -- The Setup -- Everything We Save -- Tests -- History -- Ducts -- Daylilies -- This Disease -- The Quiet Ones -- II. The Enternanment Center -- Restless -- Adult Day Care -- Message -- Family Night at the Entertainment Center -- André -- Evidence -- Escape -- Here -- Failure -- Fast Train, Fast Water -- Gifts -- III. The Language of the (Not-So) Dead -- The Language of the Body -- The Language of Resistance -- The Language of Duplicity -- The Language of Ancestors -- Dialogue (With the Selves) -- The Earliest Language -- Silence -- IV. The Garden Room -- Trip -- Bloom -- Taking Form -- Quilt -- Dinner -- Halloween -- Distance -- Effaced -- Hands -- The Metaphor -- Lifework -- V. The Dreams We Remember -- The Dream of Carrying Him -- The Dream of Ancestors -- Dream of the Self -- The Dream of Playing Golf -- The Dream of Children -- Dream of the Dark -- My Favorite Dream -- Epilogue.