Introduction / by Barbara Kingsolver (read by Liz Bulkley) -- The fireman / by Rick Bass (read by the author) -- Labors of the heart / by Claire Davis (read by the author) -- The mourning door / by Elizabeth Graver (read by the author) -- After cowboy chicken came to town / by Ha Jin (read by Patrick Wang) -- Boys / by Rick Moody (read by the author) -- Post and beam / by Alice Munro (read by Liz Bulkley) -- The raft / by Peter Orner (read by the author) -- My mother's garden / by Katherine Shonk (read by the author) -- My baby-- / by Dorothy West (read by Kera Washington)
