[chapter list]
> PART ONE
• Prelude
> Prologs
• Tom’s and Helen’s messages
• John Morganstern’s Forward
• Tom’s and Helen’s message
• Nina
………….. [“I don’t think Herb ever intended to shoot anybody.”]
• Leaving Vegas
• Mrs. Bert
………….. [and friends, out on the corner on lawn furniture]
• Emeryville-to-Elko (Denver International Airport)
• Nina
………….. [back to the park to interview Nina]
• Grand Junction (Denver International Airport)
• Jack and Bobby
………….. [the instant messaging apps]
• Stop in Denver/16th Street – on to Lincoln (Omaha – Eppley International)
• Nina
…………… [bonds with “the boys”]
• Lincoln (Omaha – Eppley International)
• Michael
…………… [aunt-and-uncle's place - carny junk]
• Galesburg (Chicago – O’Hare International)
• Nina and Bobby
…………… [the day Nina started playing solitaire] The Art Extension
• [small town] (Kansas City airport)
• Nina and Jack
…………… [Getting A Bande à Part together]
• Kingman (Albuquerque airport)
• Michael
……………. [Michael’s junk-music past] The Art Extension
• [small town] (San Diego airport)
• A.D.
……………. [lived in a downtown hotel ... a block from the streetcar stop]
• [small town] (Austin airport)
• Michael
……………. [fire at the observatory]
• [small town] (New Orleans airport)
• Nina
……………… [has a thing about toy keyboards]
• Galesburg (Chicago airport)
• Michael
……………… [drives The Shear back to Central CA] The Art Extension
• [small town] (Montreal airport)
• Nina and Mrs. Bert
……………… [they meet - reprise of prelude end]
• [small town] (??? airport)
• Bobby
…………….. [hacks into interships]
• [small town] (Minneapolis/St. Paul airport)
• Davie
…………….. [his only friends]
• [small town] (Seatle airport)
• Henry
……………… [finds a good derelict room to jam in] The Art Extension
• [small town] (Vancouver airport)
• Michael
………………. [At the jam studio] The Art Extension
• Molokai (Honolulu)
• Nina
……………… [nobody’s girl]
• [small town] (Anchorage airport)
• Bobby
…………….. [shows off his sims]
• [small town] (Fairbanks airport)
• Abandoned
…………….. [by everybody]
> PART TWO [see: Later, Maybe]
• The Camp – Jack and Davie
…………………………………. [outside the fence]
• Sakhalinsk/Blagovesh
• The Special Economic Zone – Liu Wang
…………………………………. [Morganstern checks in]
• The SEZ – George King
…………………………………. [How he came to be hospitalized]
• The SEZ – Wang and King
…………………………………. [A Summit]
• Heihe
• The SEZ – George King
…………………………………. [“aristocrats”]
• Lake Baikal
• The SEZ – George King
…………………………………. ["You're going back."]
• Central
………………………………… [back in The Golden State]
• The Camp – Jack and Davie
………………………………… [outside the fence]
• Rocklin
• The Mall – [Nina’s friend’s boss]
…………………………………. [Income Opps]
• The Camp
…………………………………. [All inducted]
• The Camp – Nina and Mrs. Bert
…………………………………. [reunion]
• The Camp – Mrs. Bert
…………………………………. [Mrs. Bert's ad hoc monitoring initiative]
• The Camp – A.D. and Nina
…………………………………. [why he never got any older]
• The Camp – Sally
…………………………………. [slow food]
• The Camp – Jack
…………………………………. [jam]
• The Camp – Michael
…………………………………. [post production]
• The Camp – Nina and Bobby
…………………………………. [the “connectors” arrive]
• The SEZ
…………………………………. [Morganstern’s sanitorium]
> Epilog
• Tom
…………………………………. [tracks down everybody up in Sacramento]
