11.   There is too much Suitcase Sam in him to think otherwise, even as he closes his eyes and imagines his man shocking the world.

12.   Yet in this ambitious, assured first novel, Strauss imagines these men in full.

13.   Suddenly Santi imagines a man who looks like her father.

14.   When Briac lets his thoughts drift like cotton-candy clouds, he imagines a man at the wheel of a ship.