Table of Contents
Prologue: The Meuse ix
Part 1 Family Ties: The Importance of Place
1 The Sight of My Eye 3
2 All the Pretty Horses 9
3 The Bending Arc 17
4 The Family of Mann 43
5 The Remove 63
6 Our Farm-And the Photographs I Took There 87
7 Hold Still 99
8 Ubi Amor, Ibi Oculus Est 131
Part 2 My Mother: Memory of a Memory Past
9 A Sentimental Welshman 169
10 Uncle Skip and the Little Dears 185
11 The Southern Landscape 203
Part 3 Gee-Gee: The Matter of Race
12 The Many Questions 243
13 Hamoo 267
14 Smothers 273
15 The Kid on the Road 277
16 Who Wants to Talk About Slavery? 279
Part 4 My Father: Against the Current of Desire
17 The Munger System 297
18 Leaving Dallas 347
19 Mr. Death and His Blue-Eyed Boy 357
20 World Traveler, Interesting Gent 379
21 The Cradle and the Grave 399
22 Bearing Witness 411
23 The Sublime End 419
24 The X Above My Head 435
Postscript: Exhibit A, Exhibit B 458
Acknowledgments 479
Photo Credits 482