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Chapters · 54
Chapter 1
A Place for the Morning
Chapter 2
Three Stitches
Chapter 3
The Women at the Window
Chapter 4
The Other Side of the Bed
Chapter 5
The Water Between
Chapter 6
Bread Enough
Chapter 7
What Came Ashore
Chapter 8
The Room with Two Cups
Chapter 9
Sisters in a City
Chapter 10
The Woman Who Waited
Chapter 11
A Map without a Border
Chapter 12
The Boy with the Stone
Chapter 13
The Cost of Keeping
Chapter 14
The Price of a Door
Chapter 15
Where the Silk Went
Chapter 16
The Long Reply
Chapter 17
An Evening Not Kept
Chapter 18
What a Man Could Offer
Chapter 19
Someone Else's Window
Chapter 20
The Words Sent Back
Chapter 21
The Things a House Can Hold
Chapter 22
The Night of the Basin
Chapter 23
The Woman at the Gate
Chapter 24
The Names of the Living
Chapter 25
A Room of Her Choosing
Chapter 26
The Work of the Hands
Chapter 27
What Was Enough
Chapter 28
The Room Left Open
Chapter 29
The Last Work
Chapter 30
The Claim Made in Love
Chapter 31
The Kindness of Strangers
Chapter 32
The Life We Did Not Make
Chapter 33
The Place Held for a Child
Chapter 34
The Daughter in the Room
Chapter 35
The Hand That Closed the Page
Chapter 36
The Water in the Wall
Chapter 37
The Morning After Wanting
Chapter 38
The Girl Who Asked
Chapter 39
What the Record Could Give
Chapter 40
The Frame Returned
Chapter 41
The First Line
Chapter 42
The Letter She Could Finish
Chapter 43
The Account Altered
Chapter 44
The Terms of the Afternoon
Chapter 45
Who Was at the Table
Chapter 46
After the Room
Chapter 47
The Journey Set Down
Chapter 48
The Names Sent Home
Chapter 49
The Day They Went Away
Chapter 50
A Family without a Center
Chapter 51
The Woman Who Kept Looking
Chapter 52
The River's Share
Chapter 53
The Mother's Voice
Chapter 54
What the Water Carried