“By making the figure of the child central to the story of this book, the author charts out a dazzling path showing us how to draw lines of connection between the routine violence of a militarization and the routine if bewildering violence of the home. There is no easy way to describe how the voice of the child left me wounded even as I say how grateful I am for the author’s courage and restraint.” 
-Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Humanities, Johns Hopkins University

Acknowledgments 
1. Introduction 
2. Frank and Sally 
3.The Hole Things Fall Into 
4. Forgetting and Re-membering Interlude I: On the Event without a Witness 
5. Re-membering II Interlude II : On Bearing Witness 
6. If I Should Die before I Wake Interlude III : On Bearing Witness to the Process of Witnessing 
7. The Pasts We Repeat I: Margaret Interlude IV : The Uncanny Return 
8. The Pasts We Repeat II : Jenny 
9. If Our First Language Is the Silence of Complicity, How Do We Learn to Speak? 
10. The Work of War Interlude V: On the Violence of Nations in the Violence of Homes 
11. Toward Re-membering a Future 
12. The Work of Love 
13. Conclusion 

References 
Web Sites 
Index