"This edition published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, Inc."--Title page verso

The airmail bowling ball -- The department of reality -- The man who forgot how to fly -- Famous rainbows -- People who don't know the answers -- Sample rains -- Organized marriage -- I should never tell you anything -- The flooded sewing box -- Recovering from the hearts-of-palm flu

Ian Bedloe's life is forever affected by an event that took place years before--the night, in 1967, when he told his older brother, Dan, that Dan's wife had been cheating on him and that the baby son Dan had come to love was not his own

"A Fawcett Columbine book"--Title page verso