Like a Lake tells the story of Nico, his father (an Italian-American architect) and his mother (a Japanese-American sculptor). When the photographer Coda Gray befriends ten-year old Nico, the family is wrecked by its own perfection and readers find Northern California's post-war landscape giving way to fissures of alternative lifestyles.
Like a Lake tells the story of Nico, his father (an Italian-American architect) and his mother (a Japanese-American sculptor). When the photographer Coda Gray befriends ten-year old Nico, the family is wrecked by its own perfection and readers find Northern California's post-war landscape giving way to fissures of alternative lifestyles.
Millions of Years Ago 1 My Nico 2 Unfolding a Flood 4 Turning the Key 5 The Memory of Lake Tahoe 16 My Mother's Eyes 17 My Mother 18 Coda 21 By Chance 25 When Bamboo Shoots Poke Their Heads out of the Earth 29 Blue Rambler 30 Tender Buttons 47 Waiting 49 Refusing to be Plucked 55 We Want Roses 56 She Sleeps with Him Every Night 59 She-Wolf Made of Rock 61 Blue Ticket 65 Learning to Swim 66 Floating Studio, Floating Zendo 67 Fannette Island 76 Floating Zendos and Mentorgartens 79 I Learned about Snowflakes 82 I Learned about the Birds of Lake Tahoe 84 Summer Snow Cake 86 Love or Affection 88 Mary's Dream 89 Each Other's Pockets 90 Black Cloth 91 Brown Kimono 94 Something Broke 96 The Voice of the Lake 101 Moon Writing 102 Artichoke 104 No Name for Him 107 What's in a Name? 108 Like Piles of Laundry? 109 Frozen Pond 111 Coda's Dream 113 Like Mother and Son 114 Fifteen Good Prints 115 Glass Moon 117 Tsukimi Udon (Moon Noodles) 118 Soaring 121 Walking Underwater 123 Open My Heart 125 Like Rice on Chopsticks 126 Like a Sequence of Poems 127 Waiting, Still 128 Morpheus 129 Blue Marble 131 Something Like Love 132 Afterword (Afterward): Like the Navel of My Dream of Nico 133 Acknowledgments 139 Illustrations 141 Notes 143
Millions of Years Ago 1 My Nico 2 Unfolding a Flood 4 Turning the Key 5 The Memory of Lake Tahoe 16 My Mother's Eyes 17 My Mother 18 Coda 21 By Chance 25 When Bamboo Shoots Poke Their Heads out of the Earth 29 Blue Rambler 30 Tender Buttons 47 Waiting 49 Refusing to be Plucked 55 We Want Roses 56 She Sleeps with Him Every Night 59 She-Wolf Made of Rock 61 Blue Ticket 65 Learning to Swim 66 Floating Studio, Floating Zendo 67 Fannette Island 76 Floating Zendos and Mentorgartens 79 I Learned about Snowflakes 82 I Learned about the Birds of Lake Tahoe 84 Summer Snow Cake 86 Love or Affection 88 Mary's Dream 89 Each Other's Pockets 90 Black Cloth 91 Brown Kimono 94 Something Broke 96 The Voice of the Lake 101 Moon Writing 102 Artichoke 104 No Name for Him 107 What's in a Name? 108 Like Piles of Laundry? 109 Frozen Pond 111 Coda's Dream 113 Like Mother and Son 114 Fifteen Good Prints 115 Glass Moon 117 Tsukimi Udon (Moon Noodles) 118 Soaring 121 Walking Underwater 123 Open My Heart 125 Like Rice on Chopsticks 126 Like a Sequence of Poems 127 Waiting, Still 128 Morpheus 129 Blue Marble 131 Something Like Love 132 Afterword (Afterward): Like the Navel of My Dream of Nico 133 Acknowledgments 139 Illustrations 141 Notes 143
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