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Tables of Contents for The Sewing Room
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
INTRODUCTION
vii
1 The Sewing Room
1
6
2 The Quick and the Dead
7
6
3 Snakes of Three Generations
13
4
4 Eggs
17
4
5 Original Sin
21
6
6 Working the Waterfront
27
8
7 My Mother and I Have Gotten Along Really Well Since She Died
35
6
8 The New Math
41
4
9 Ada Goes Home
45
8
10 To Be or Not to Be
53
6
11 If I Should Die Before I Wake
59
6
12 The Saint of Lost Things
65
6
13 The Things Kids Say
71
4
14 The Quiet Hour Club
75
4
15 Our Lady
79
6
16 The Second Time Around
85
4
17 Closing Down Home
89
4
18 The Back Stairs
93
4
19 Never Tell a Kid She's Tired
97
4
20 The Girls
101
4
21 Father's Day
105
4
22 Up to Whitby
109
8
23 A Kind and Gentle Man
117
6
24 I Brag to My Friend about Baking My Own Bread
123
4
25 Men Are Very Delicate
127
4
26 Showing Off
131
4
27 The Tombs of the Medici
135
4
28 Le Hameau
139
6
29 The Pearl
145
4
30 Trouble Love
149
4
31 Some of Us Are Not Allowed to Die
153
4
32 Rachel and Her Mother
157
4
33 Feet of Clay
161
4
34 Ted Who Has AIDS
165
6
35 Lies in the City
171
6
36 You Look Terrific
177
6
37 Before the Last War
183
4
38 Love Me Tender, Aura Lee
187
4
AFTERWORD
191