From the Book - First edition.
Prologue: Letter to My Father xv --
Our Birth Is Nothing but Our Death Begun 3 --
Decline and Fall (i) 9 --
Paradise, Soon Lost 19 --
News Flash: We Are Animals 23 --
The Actuarial Prime of Life, or Why Children Don't Like Spicy Food 29 --
Bloodline to Star Power (i) 37 --
Boys vs. Girls (ii) 49 --
Why Lionesses Prefer Dark Brunettes, or Why Both Men and Women Are Attracted to Deep Voices 53 --
Hoop Dreams (iv and v) 66 --
Dying Just a Little 71 --
Ye Olde Mind-Body Problem 78 --
Adulthood and Middle Age --
Decline and Fall (ii) 87 --
Bloodline to Star Power (ii) 98 --
Boys vs. Girls (iii) 102 --
Sex Changes (Everything) 104 --
The Trouble with Being Food 111 --
Everything I Know I've Learned from My Bad Back 114 --
Notes on the Local Swimming Hole 121 --
Sex and Death (iii) 124 --
Decline and Fall (iii) 139 --
The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead 151 --
Boys vs. Girls (iv) 160 --
Chronicle of Death Foretold 164 --
Death Is the Mother of Beauty 173 --
Life Is That Which Gives Meaning to Life 176 --
How to Live Forever (i) 181 --
How to Live Forever (ii) 189 --
Bloodline to Star Power (iii) 200 --
Sex and Death (iv) 205 --
The Story Told One Last Time, from Beginning to End 211 --
Notes for Eulogy for My Father 218.
