Cover -- A RIVER SO LONG -- Early praise for A River So Long -- More praise for A River So Long -- Naming the Giraffe -- Husbands and Wives -- Casino Night -- Two Doubles -- Ten Years Gone -- The First Seven Hours -- The Second Seven Hours -- The Third Seven Hours -- A Harmless Little Fuck -- Wallpaper for a Funeral -- Veronica and Her Husband -- How They Met -- Their Wedding -- His Family -- Bound to Roam -- Easter Basket -- Nothing Changes on New Year's Day -- Two-Story Bars -- Girl in Costume -- A River So Long -- Wood Grave -- Wonderful, Tonight -- Family Luggage -- Twenty-Six Inch Pullman -- Thirty-Two Inch Pullman -- Train Case -- Leather-Flap Tote -- If You Can Make It Here -- Dead Mall -- The Restaurant -- The Card Store -- The Luggage Store -- Don't Let the Days Go By -- Away from Beale -- Garden Party -- Days Uncounted -- The Music There -- Other People -- Kenny Stern -- Teacher -- Brother -- Swung Way Down Low -- Up On Your Feet -- Here Comes the Twister -- Love and Marriage -- Four-Room Hotel -- The Lavender Room -- Pink Prison -- Butterfly Room -- Wood Room -- Stabbing the Rat -- Prudence, Dear -- Her Dress Now -- Going to Bed -- We Passed Upon the Stair -- Metal and Stone -- Hannah's Watch -- Sapphire Link Bracelet -- Oval-Cut Amethyst Ring -- Pearl Studs/Diamond Jackets -- Gone Are the Screams -- Jamaica -- Skydive Naked from an Aeroplane -- I Live by the River -- Restless -- Packing -- Pink Plaid Blazer -- Black Velvet Opera Coat -- Minidress -- The Sky Too -- Little Dog and Big Dog -- Aeroplane Flies High -- Maggie -- Birthday Feast -- First Grown-Up Job -- Jenny -- Lucas -- Bryan -- Somebody Told Me This Is the Place Where Everything's Better and Everything's Safe -- Hard Day of Nothing -- Can't Have a Swim -- Fantasies Come Flailing Around -- All Three -- Little Dog -- Big Dog -- Bad Dog -- Red Bedroom -- Brunch -- Knife.

After Leaving New Orleans -- Flowers on the Wall -- Three Dozen Long-Stemmed Red Roses -- Bridesmaid Bouquet -- Funeral -- Bride's Bouquet -- Where We Used to Live -- Kindness, I Suppose -- Food -- Nikki T.'s Mom's Kentucky Derby Pie -- Mashed Potatoes -- Sour Cream and Onion Pringles -- Kate and Van -- Postures -- Veronica and Trinh -- Perhaps, Perhaps -- Crushed by Tumbling Tide -- It's a Swan -- South Cross Land -- No Simple Highway -- These Things Are Good -- These Things Are a Drag -- Lined with the Light of the Living -- Veronica Is Not a Slut -- Van -- Klein -- Enzo -- Her Husband -- Dylan -- Freedom of Speech -- At the Cemetery Where -- Cars -- The First Car -- The Second Car -- The Third Car -- Two Cars -- Streets I Used to Own -- Kate -- The Attorney -- Van -- Boys You Sent Away -- Dénouement -- House of Crosses -- First -- Silver -- Third to Last -- Telephone -- Presents -- Kate -- Van and Trinh -- Niece and Nephew -- Dylan -- Straight Until Night -- Every Silver Lining -- Moved Better on Wine -- When It All Cracks Up -- This Is the End -- And I Feel Fine -- An Unkindness -- The Last to Leave -- This Is It -- Beside You Everywhere -- "Passion" -- Some Sunny Summer Sunday Morning -- Three Front Windows -- Small Side Window -- A Guy in My Block -- Saved a Little Trouble for the Next -- Month Two -- "Romance" -- Month Three -- Hurt Me Sometime -- Long Nets of White Cloud -- Month Four -- Wallow in the Mire -- "Forgiveness" -- Alone Among the Wreck -- "Love" -- About the author.