| Telling Lives, Telling History |
| ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |
| Maps |
| GLOSSARY |
 | PART ONE TWO SUMATRAN CHILDHOOD MEMOIRS |
 | Imagining Modern Indonesia via Autobiography |
| PART TWO THE TRANSLATIONS |
| Me and Toba |
| Village Childhood (The Autobiography of A Minangkabau Child) |
| • | Chapter 1: A Lake Singkarak Child |
| • | Chapter 2: Going to School |
| • | Chapter 3: At the Upper Surau |
| • | Chapter 4: Ascending Mount Galogandang |
| • | Chapter 5: Hide-and-Seek |
| • | Chapter 6: Getting Circumcised |
| • | Chapter 7: All Because of a Banana |
| • | Chapter 8: Finishing the Koran |
| • | Chapter 9: The Village Privates Steal A Chicken |
| • | Chapter 10: Suspected of Eating Fermented Cassava |
| • | Chapter 11: Fencing Lessons |
| • | Chapter 12: Threshing Rice |
| • | Chapter 13: reciting koranic verses at the pesantren |
| • | Chapter 14: Maskur Falls in Love |
| • | Chapter 15: Walking Around Lake Singkarak |
| • | Chapter 16: A Sidetrip to Ombilin |
| • | Chapter 17: Earthquake |
| • | Chapter 18: The Fasting Month |
| • | Chapter 19: Lebaran |
| • | Chapter 20: A Trip To Sulit Air |
| • | Chapter 21: Studying Black Magic |
| • | Chapter 22: Asjiah Gets Married, and I . . . |
| • | Chapter 23: A Small Kid in the Village, an Adult in the Rantau |
| Notes |
| REFERENCES |
| INDEX |