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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
Wheels Up
Outside Voices
A Dog Named Humphrey
You Someday Lucky
If You Take the Canoe Out
The Chupacabra
Up the Down Volcano
The Grape Man
Right Aid
Relative Stranger
Brace Yourself
Immediate Family
Cinema of the Confined
Wolf
Our Hour Is Up
The Doctor Is a Woman
Note
Acknowledgments
By Sloane Crosley
A Note About the Author
Copyright
MCD
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Copyright © 2018 by Sloane Crosley
All rights reserved
First edition, 2018
These essays originally appeared, in somewhat different form, in the following publications: “A Dog Named Humphrey” in The Believer; “Up the Down Volcano” as an e-book; “Immediate Family” in The New York Times. “A Dog Named Humphrey” was published when Gossip Girl was still on the air. May she rest in peace. xoxo
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This is a work of nonfiction. However, the names and identifying characteristics of certain individuals have been changed, some timelines have been altered, and some of the dialogue is more exact than some of the other dialogue.
