• Acknowledgements
• PART ONE: LIVING IN THE HURRICANE
• Stars and Stories
• The Cockroach Building
• Magda and the Great Virtues
• The Eye of the Hurricane
• Decent Killers
• An Apology to My Mother
• A PAUSE
• Victims in Wonderland
• PART TWO: THE HURRICANE IN NATURE
• Venus and Aeneas
• Thoreau’s Walk on the Wild Side
• The Pelican
• The Hands of Joshua James
• Kätchen in Middletown
• Epilogue by Doris A. Hallie
• Afterword by John J. Compton
• Index
