About the author; Title page; Dedication; Mami Kaketa Can Have This; How to Kill a Cockroach; Vertigo; A Loan; Dinner with the Livingstons; Love and Lust; A Tantrum; Mami Hangs Herself; The Rainy Season; Lexington Queen; The First Breakfast of Summer; Limbo; The Deconstruction; Escape; Tinkerbelle's Treat; The Winter; Home; Niigata; The Emperor's Bluegill; Intent to Sell; Plan B; To Tuvalu; Acknowledgements.
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Winner of the 2005 The Australian /Vogel Literary Award, this is a pitch perfect, intriguing, artful novel about exile and apathy, attraction and isolation.