Luz Bones is Myrna Stone's book of voices that range through six centuries of life, death, and then beyond both.

ContentsLUZ BONESPART I: CAST ABOUT AS VAPORMartin Luther, Plagued in His Retirement by Sickness, Appeals to His WifeLord Katie, Three Days Before Christmas Kat Ashley, First Lady of the Bedchamber, Reveals the Queen's Condition in a Letter to Her BelovedJohn Ashley, Master of the Queen's Jewels, in a Letter to His Still-Absent WifeThe Presbyterian Minister, Donald Cargill, to His Dead Wife on the Eve of His ExecutionThe Rev. Donald Cargill's Brother, James, on Following a Merchant's PathThe Anatomist, Dr. Antonio Maria Valsalva, Converses With His Young Bride Over SupperElena, to Her Second Husband, Niccolo, on the Failings of Her First HusbandLucy Bakewell Announces Her Imminent Marriage to John James Audubon in a Letter to Her Kinswoman, Miss GiffordJohn James Audubon Describes His Childhoodto His Sons, Victor and JohnnieJoseph Mason, Audubon's Former Background Artist,Speaks to Their Mutual Friends on LoyaltyUpon Taking Delivery of Audubon's First Published Bird Prints, Joseph Mason Sees, Then Shares With His Son, a Bitter TruthLucy Bakewell Audubon Takes Her Grandson on a Late-Night Walk to Find Her HusbandJohn James Audubon's Late RefrainsPART II: THE SIAMESE TWINS NARRATIVESNok Thai's LullabyNok Thai, in Mourning for Her HusbandNok Thai, on the Thought of New Lives for Herself and Her Children Captain Abel Coffin on How He and His Partner, Robert Hunter, Have Managed the Twins on TourI, Chang-EngNancy Yates on Her Daughters' Upcoming Double NuptialsI, Chang-EngAunt Grace Yates on the Brink of ChangeDr. James Calloway, to His Protégé, on His History With the Bunker BrothersSally Bunker Looks Back on Her MarriageAddie Bunker on Her Sister and Their Conjoined and Separate LivesRobert Bunker Describes the Circumstances of His Father's DeathPART III: AS PRESENT NOW AS EVERHans Christian Andersen Encloses His Miniature Likenessin a Letter to Jenny LindJenny Lind to Her Husband After He DiscoversHer Cache of Letters from Hans Christian AndersenRiborg Voigt Bøving to Her Husband on His Objections to Hans Christian AndersenHans Christian Andersen to a ConfidantIn a Letter to His Cousin Banker Moritz Melchior Speaks of His Wife, Dorothea, and Her Devotion to Hans Christian AndersenDorothea Melchior to Her Daughter on Andersen's Impact a Dozen Years After His DeathMae West to Her Longtime Lover Two Hours Before Her Attorney Arrives to Draft Her WillPaul Novak to Attorney Melvin Belli Before the Reading of Mae West's WillH. L. Describes His Recent Near-Death Experience to the Newest Member of His Sex Addiction Therapy GroupH. L.'s Former Wife, Mary, on His Checkered HistoryAnnie C., Former Security Guard at Walmart, to Her Brother on Her Near-Death ExperienceIn Line at the Celestial Coffee & Dessert Buffet,Annie's Auntie Alice Chats Up Her SisterThe Last Known Words of Frederick Valentich from a Disc Discovered in a Field of AlfalfaA Farmer Reveals to His Best Matethe Details of His SightingGuido Valentich, to a Persistent Junior ReporterAlberta Valentich in Mourning for Her SonAfter Decades of Avoiding the Press, Rhonda Rushton Breaks Her Silence in a Televised InterviewStephen Roby, Former Air Traffic Controller and the Last Person to Talk with FrederickValentich, Speaks on the Mystery of Valentich's DisappearanceTo My Parents in the Hereafter