Introduction
Part I: Escape, Escapism, Escapology
1. Notes from Neverland
2. I Flit, I Float, I Fleetly Flee, I Fly [on The Sound of Music]
Part II: Family Likenesses
3. The Escapist [on Michael Chabon]
4. Mellon [on Junot Diaz]
5. Bath and Bathos [on Dave Eggers and Jonathan Safran Foer]
6. The Beauty! The Horror! [on Emma Donoghue]
7. Et in Nobis Arcadia [on Lauren Groff]
8. The Ethics of Immortality [on Colson Whitehead]
9. The Songs of Murdered Souls [On Jesmyn Ward and George Saunders]
Part III: Foreign Correspondents
10. Choice and the Chosen [on David Grossman]
11. Categorical Denial [on Arundhati Roy]
Part IV: Prequel
12. The Tunnel Out [on William H. Gass]
AcknowledgmentsReferences
Index