Contents: Take Pity The First Seven Years The Mourners Idiots First The Last Mohican Black Is My Favorite Color My Son the Murderer The German Refugee The Maid's Shoes The Magic Barrel The Jewbird The Letter In Retirement The Loan The Cost of Living Man in the Drawer The Death of Me The Bill God's Wrath Rembrandt's Hat Angel Levine Life Is Better Than Death The Model The Silver Crown Talking Horse 350 pages With an additional thirteen pages of introduction written by the author.