Publisher's preface / James O'Reilly
Introduction / Tony Perrottet
Escape from Darien (Panama) / Cameron McPherson Smith
Officially a woman (Mexico) / Stephanie Elizondo Griest
No sin in Ecuador (Ecuador) / Justin Peters
Bamenda syndrome (Cameroon) / David Torrey Peters
Mother, India (India) / Jeff Greenwald
Crazy diamond (Texas) / Adrian Cole
Raw meat, Barry White, and the brothers (Italy) / Matthew Gavin Frank
Chance life (Colorado) / Millicent Susens
Choices rejected (Ethiopia) / Carol Beddo
Floating coffin of Tonle Sap Lake (Cambodia) / Michael McCarthy
On the occasional importance of a ceiling fan (Puerto Rico) / Emily Stone
That's amore (Italy) / Susan Van Allen
Toward Stalin (Georgia) / Gabriel O'Malley
Tiger (Nepal) / Patricia Dreyfus
Empty rocker (Amsterdam) / Kathleen Spivack
Papa's ghost (Cuba) / Gary Buslik
Shopping for dirndls (Vienna) / Jill Paris
Up Cambodia without a phrasebook (Cambodia) / Rolf Potts
I hold high my beautiful, luminous Qur'an (Ghana) / David Grant
Antarctica Concerto (Antarctica) / Cecilia Worth
Vast difference (Minnesota) / Deborah Fryer
Long red road (Congo/Zaire) / Ken Matusow
In a place of wind (Mongolia) / Erika Connor
Confessions of a "born-again" cowboy in France (France) / Peter Wortsman
Let's spend the night together (USA) / Chris Epting
Discalced (Baja California & Spain) / Bruce Berger
Hair to the throne (England) / Marc-Edouard Leon
My special education (Italy) / David Farley
Life in the world (The world) / Pico Iyer.