Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- part one: on quitting -- To Want -- Sarah Emma Edmonds -- Eva Braun at Berchtesgaden -- Lisa Fremont -- Yang Gui Fei -- Seven Reasons for Divorce -- On Sameness -- Year of the Bombshell -- Hong Kong Flower Lounge -- Man in the White Truck -- Preparations -- KitchenAid Epicurean Stand Mixer -- Edward Hopper Studies -- Hotel Room -- Office at Night -- Room in New York -- Before -- On Quitting -- part two: five-year plan -- The Laws of the Garden -- Five-Year Plan -- 4.99 All You Can Eat Sunday Brunch -- The Goal -- Chinese Speech Contest -- Holiday Parties -- An Evening at the Chinese Opera -- Morning Porridge -- At Lake Michigan -- There Is Something about the East Coast -- Golden Valley -- First Halloween -- Majority Rules -- Mostly Ocean -- Dragon Inn -- part three: limits -- Lantern Festival -- Flight -- The Tower of London -- Seven Changs -- Planting Tulips -- Instinct -- Damage -- Gamble House -- Human Inventory -- Limits -- Animal Models -- Taiwan Independence -- Grooming -- Face -- Meditation at Petoskey -- Other Books in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry -- Back Cover.