Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Learning to Dance -- 1. Seduction -- 2. The First Return -- 3. Agnaldo and Candomblé -- 4. Letting Salvador Inside -- 5. Learning to Dance -- 6. A Dangerous Embrace -- 7. Marginals -- 8. Sex and Friendship -- 9. Rain -- 10. Burnt Knives -- 11. A Stanger -- Part Two: Treading Water -- 12. Encountering Seattle -- 13. Ideas -- 14. Life Change -- 15. Letting the Outer Skin Be Social -- 16. Of Race and Remembrance -- 17. More Sides of Bahia -- 18. A View Into the Abyss -- 19. Power and Presence -- 20. Trust -- 21. Tall Poppy -- 22. A Shadowed Color of Shade -- Part Three: Laughter Lessons -- 23. Leaves of Understanding -- 24. Love -- 25. Barriers of Glass -- 26. Storms -- 27. Sharing a Lifeboat -- 28. Heartbreak -- 29. Evolution -- 30. Resting on the Wings of a Butterfly -- Afterword.