1995 hardcover edition (ISBN 0060171324): designed by Jessica Shatan.
Jacket design by Suzanne Noli, jacket illustration by Greg Harlin. Inside backcover jacket photo of Erdrich by Leo Kim.
Making Babies December. Deep snow and middle trimester. Where I Work. Blue Jays Advice January. Sweet hopes and poker hands. Eating Lemon Meringue Pie [recipe] TV Dinner Licorice and Metaphysics Hour of the wolf Wintergardens Famous labors Passions Stones Women's Work In praise of my husband's hair Archery
Part II Spring
Heart The newborn dance Sleeping with stones March. Spring storms. Ravens and wild turkeys. The melt The Chickadee's tongue Crying Nests May nights. Desire. Duck rape Morning glories and Eastern Phoebes Luna Hide and seek Woodchuck punctuality Fiddlehead garden STEAMED FIDDLEHEADS FOR MOTHER'S MILK Finches and the Grand Sky Horizon Sickness Wild Foxglove. Women of the house. Wild kitten Fairy tales. Love, grief, and invisible seeds.
Part III Summer
Job descriptions Gravity Well Summer Pond The fox An all-licorice dinner to saturate the senses All-Licorice Dinner Menu [includes several recipes] Art and Play Bathing Children Mirrors Rage The Veils Three Photographs The precious no Rose Nights, Summer Storms, Lists of Spiders and Literary Mothers Local Deer Sleepwalkers Love gifts Chuck's Dad Disturbances All Mothers A Recidivist
Part IV Fall
Skunk Dreams A short personal dream history. The fence. The woman pine. The dream fence. Obstacles and desire Fall Rains Grandpa's prayer Driving slick roads The Zero The Blue Jay's Dance Outwalking Death Hypothetical Pierogies [includes recipes] Mourning Cloaks Weaning Leap Day The Baby-sitter Francis for the last time Dream Walking
Modified: August 13, 2008,