Leaving Xaia

by Nurkse, D.

• ISBN13: 9781884800269
• ISBN10: 1884800262
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-04-01
• Publisher: Four Way Books

Table of Contents

Part One: Marriage in the Largest City
The Car Bomb	3	(1)
These Are Your Rights	4	(2)
Overseas Accounts	6	(1)
Bring the War Home	7	(1)
Rooms by the Night or Hour	8	(2)
A Pause at Delta Assembly	10	(1)
Midnight at the Cobalt Hotel	11	(1)
Dominant Harmony	12	(1)
Looking and Finding	13	(1)
Interior Highway	14	(2)
A Drive in the Coastal Range	16	(1)
Ark River	17	(2)
Marriage in the Largest City	19	(2)
The Projects	21	(1)
A Confidential Bulletin	22	(1)
The Assassination	23	(2)
At Fulton Mall	25	(2)
Liberty	27	(1)
Final Separation	28	(1)
The Unlit Room	29	(4)
Part Two: A Block North of Mercy
The Twenty-Four Hour War	33	(1)
The Swiftness with Which Those Cities Fell	34	(5)
Letter from the Capital	39	(3)
The Last Husband	42	(2)
The Coming Crash	44	(1)
Absence Seizures	45	(1)
The Soul	46	(1)
A Prayer at Mount Sinai Hospital	47	(1)
The Power Door	48	(1)
Peace After Long Sickness	49	(2)
A Block North of Mercy	51	(4)
Part Three: The Checkpoints
The Impending Famine in Xaia	55	(4)
The River of Separation	59	(1)
The Guards	60	(1)
The Final Chance	61	(1)
Cordillera de los Espejos	62	(1)
The Road to Soria	63	(1)
The Brackish Wells	64	(1)
A Prayer of Abandonment	65	(1)
Dawn or Twilight	66	(1)
The Interior	67	(1)
A Night in Toluna	68	(1)
Customs	69	(1)
The United States Embassy in Salvador	70	(1)
The Background Chords Return in Minor	71	(1)
Flight Lounge	72	(1)
Leaving Xaia	73	(1)
Lateness	74	(1)
The Checkpoints	75