A haunting question -- Oliver comes to town -- Obsessed but not unique -- Night lights -- A small personal triumph -- An ominous end to the year -- 2 Horatio Street, #3G -- "Stereo Sue" -- Just the beginning -- Morning edition -- Author, author -- The color of words -- Musical interlude I -- Action, perception, cognition -- Tungsten birthday -- In juxtaposition -- Outed -- Musical interlude II -- The compass hat -- One damn thing after another -- Creatures of the couch -- Nerves of steel -- "Stereo Sue" revisited -- Barium birthday -- Ideal reader -- Learning to hear -- Iridium birthday -- Thoughts while reading the mind's eye -- One moment in time -- Pet rock -- Experimentum suitatis -- Musical interlude III -- Bioelectricity -- War and peace -- A therapeutic brain injury? -- Channeling dad -- Love and work -- Lead birthday -- Saying goodbye

"In this intimate and inspiring book, Susan Barry shares the heartfelt letters through which she and Oliver Sacks became friends, laying bare the meeting of two people endlessly intrigued by the world and its mysteries"--