The linked personal essays in the collection address questions of home and dislocation, knowing and not-knowing, identity and the search for connection across the stages of the author's life. This memoir-in-essays explores these themes by means of collage-like forms. The title essay, "Secret Agent Man," blends the author's memories of her father with facts about spies as she questions whether or not he really worked for the Mossad. "Call It Rape" investigates its vexed topic by juxtaposing the story of the rapes that took place at the author's high school in the 1970s with her experience on the jury of a rape trial, other personal experiences, the sexual assaults in Ovid's Metamorphoses, and the etymology of the word "rape." These essays ask, Can you ever really know your parents or your loved ones? Can you ever see the way ahead or back? How do we navigate the power and betrayal of the body, of art, of love?