title: Denis Wood: Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas
author: Ira Glass
description: That a cartographer could set out on a mission that's so emotional, so personal, so idiosyncratic, was news to me. --Ira Glass, from his introduction to <i>Everything Sings</i><br /><br /><i>Everything Sings</i> is an atlas that is not an atlas: it is a series of stories that, along with Denis Wood s illuminating text, read like a compelling work of fiction. Welcome to the mysterious, mundane, unique, and commonplace world of Boylan Heights, a location fortunate enough to be flattered with the kind of inventive and groundbreaking mapping Wood offers here. --Katherine Harmon, editor of <i>You Are Here: Personal Geographies & Other Maps of the Imagination</i>
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  For my family,  
  and for anyone, anywhere, struggling for freedom
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
  
  
  —Joan Didion
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Contents
  
  
  [Title Page](02_Title_Page.xhtml)
  
  
  Copyright
  
  
  [Dedication](04_Dedication.xhtml)
  
  
  [Epigraph](05_Epigraph.xhtml)
  
  
  [Map](06_Map.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
  [_Prologue_](08_Prologue.xhtml)
  
  
  [PART ONE](09_PART_ONE_North_Korea.xhtml)
  
  
  [North Korea](09_PART_ONE_North_Korea.xhtml)
  
  
  [_One_ Even the Birds and Mice Can Hear You
  Whisper](10_One_Even_the_Birds_and_Mice_Can_Hear_You_Whisper.xhtml)
  
  
  [_Two_ A Dangerous History](11_Two_A_Dangerous_History.xhtml)
  
  
  [_Three_ Swallows and Magpies](12_Three_Swallows_and_Magpies.xhtml)
  
  
  [_Four_ Tears of Blood](13_Four_Tears_of_Blood.xhtml)
  
  
  