Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. "Failing Economies and Tortured Ecologies": Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents
2. Toxic Metropolis: Alejandro Morales's The Rag Doll Plagues
3. Ridding the World of Waste: Louise Erdich's The Antelope Wife
4. "An Eerie Liquid Elasticity": Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange
5. "Outcasts and Dreamers in the Cities": Gerald Vizenor's Dead Voices
Epilogue
Notes
Works Cited