Ch. 1. The shocks of transplantation. World's End
Continental Drift
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
The Joy Luck Club
China Men
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
The Xenogenesis Trilogy
Jasmine.
Ch. 2. Mythical innocence. Dandelion Wine
The Bluest Eye
Mama Day
Continental Drift
Original Sins
So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away
Deadeye Dick
The Things They Carried
1968: A Novel
Invisible Man
The Sot-Weed Factor.
Ch. 3. Yearning for lost children. Fools Crow
Mr. Sammler's Planet
The Dean's December
Love in the Ruins
Snow White
The Free-Lance Pallbearers
Flight to Canada.
Ch. 4. Seeking spiritual reality. House Made of Dawn
Rabbit, Run
Rabbit Redux
Rabbit Is Rich
Rabbit at Rest
Bless Me, Ultima
Legs
Billy Phelan's Greatest Game
Ironweed
An American Dream
Gravity's Rainbow.
Ch. 5. The fragility of democracy. The Crying of Lot 49
The Book of Daniel
Libra
The Terrible Twos
The Terrible Threes
The Turner Diaries
Ecotopia
Ecotopia Emerging
Cities of the Red Night
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Vineland.
Ch. 6. Demonic visions. The Free-Lance Pallbearers
The Public Burning
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
Woman on the Edge of Time
Blood and Guts in High School
American Psycho
Why Are We in Vietnam?
Mercy
Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles
Almanac of the Dead.
Ch. 7. Liberating the land of freedom. Sombrero Fallout: A Japanese Novel
Dhalgren
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book
Griever: An American Monkey King in China
Always Coming Home
The Dispossessed
Woman on the Edge of Time
He, She and It
The Fifth Sacred Thing.
Ch. 8. Small is beautiful. Sula
Hiding Place
Damballah
Sent for You Yesterday
Tracks
Love Medicine
Ceremony
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
Letourneau's Used Auto Parts
Merry Men
Slapstick; or, Lonesome No More!
Islands in the Net.
Ch. 9. The failure of the dream in fiction.