Lynn Melnick is the author of three books of poetry and a contributor to Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture. Her poems have appeared in the New Republic, the New Yorker, and the Paris Review; her essays have appeared in Jewish Currents, LA Review of Books, and Poetry Daily. Born in Indianapolis, she grew up in Los Angeles and currently lives in Brooklyn.

• Introduction: Seven Bridges Road
• Chapter One: Why’d You Come in Here Lookin’ Like That
• Chapter Two: Steady as the Rain
• Chapter Three: The Seeker
• Chapter Four: Here You Come Again
• Chapter Five: Jolene
• Chapter Six: The Grass Is Blue
• Chapter Seven: Coat of Many Colors
• Chapter Eight: Islands in the Stream
• Chapter Nine: Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
• Chapter Ten: Will He Be Waiting for Me
• Chapter Eleven: Down from Dover
• Chapter Twelve: Silver Dagger
• Chapter Thirteen: Don’t Think Twice
• Chapter Fourteen: I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby
• Chapter Fifteen: Little Sparrow
• Chapter Sixteen: 9 to 5
• Chapter Seventeen: Two Doors Down
• Chapter Eighteen: Put a Little Love in Your Heart
• Chapter Nineteen: Blue Smoke
• Chapter Twenty: Bargain Store
• Chapter Twenty-One: The Story
• Acknowledgments: I Will Always Love You
• References and Resources