The Past Leads a Life of Its Own

Introduction
Prologue
1. One Goes Leaping
2. Stone Flowers
3. The Ascension of Reverend Watkins
4. From Shire's End
5. A Child's History of Work
6. Easter
7. Resurrection and Death
8. The Three Times I Saw My Father Run
9. May Ice
10. The Frog and the King
11. Cicada Season
12. Among the Women
13. The Next Room: A Grownup's Story
14. Of Them, Much Is Required
15. Quilting
16. More Than the Watchman for the Morning
Epilogue