Dedication
For Julia
Epigraph
It is never too late to be
what you might have been.
—George Eliot
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Hello
Names
Patience
How I Look
The Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade
The Littlest Big Top on Earth
Gone
Artists
Shapes in Clouds
Imagination
The Loneliest Gorilla in the World
TV
The Nature Show
Stella
Stella’s Trunk
A Plan
Bob
Wild
Picasso
Three Visitors
My Visitors Return
Sorry
Julia
Drawing Bob
Bob and Julia
Mack
Not Sleepy
The Beetle
Change
Guessing
Jambo
Lucky
Arrival
Stella Helps
Old News
Tricks
Introductions
Stella and Ruby
Home of the One and Only Ivan
Art Lesson
Treat
Elephant Jokes
Children
The Parking Lot
Ruby’s Story
A Hit
Worry
The Promise
Knowing
Five Men
Comfort
Crying
The One and Only Ivan
Once Upon A Time
The Grunt
Mud
Protector
A Perfect Life
The End
Vine
The Temporary Human
Hunger
Still Life
Punishment
Babies
Beds
My Place
Nine Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-Six Days
A Visit
A New Beginning
Poor Mack
Colours
A Bad Dream
The Story
How
Remembering
What They Did
Something Else to Buy
Another Ivan
Days
Nights
Project
Not Right
Going Nowhere
Bad Guys
Ad
Imagining
Not-Tag
One More Thing
The Seven O’clock Show
Twelve
H
Nervous
Showing Julia
More Paintings
Chest Beating
Angry
Puzzle Pieces
Finally
The Next Morning
Mad Human
Phone Call
A Star Again
The Ape Artist
Interview
The Early News
Signs on Sticks
Protesters
Check Marks
Free Ruby
New Box
Training
Poking and Prodding
No Painting
More Boxes
Goodbye
Click
An Idea
Respect
Photo
Leaving
Good Boy
Moving
Awakening
Missing
Food
Not Famous
Something in the Air
A New TV
The Family
Excited
What I See
Still There
Watching
She
Door
Wondering
Ready
Outside at Last
Oops
What It Was Like
Pretending
Nest
More TV
It
Romance
More About Romance
Grooming
Talk
The Top of the Hill
The Wall
Safe
Silverback
Glossary
Author’s