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CONTENTS

• Title Page • Copyright • Dedication 1 Ex Machina Divine and Mechanical Bodies The Case of the Double Jinx Understudy Possible and Impossible Sentences Little, Red Girl-Terrarium Lucy in Chrysalis Big Valley’s Last Surviving Beauty Queen Cinderella Story Before the Catalog of Boats Why the McKean County Lifeguards Left Town Paper Anniversary A Theory of Disaster 2 My Girlhood Apothecary Genealogy Family Portrait with Rosary and Steak Knife Genealogy Portrait of my Father as a Young Man with a Bludgeon In Language School My Father Learns to Pass for Dutch My Father Flying Home From War, 1975 Genealogy Games Lent 3 Our Wilderness Period Before and After, Botched Still Life with Mannequin and Leg of Lamb Fire Plan Frontier Thesis Rabbit Starvation Inventing the Body 4 Bad Magic We Won’t Make it to the Talkies Vigil Friendly Letter Horses Dream of Horses All Good Girls Deserve Fervent Missive Revisionist Love Story Birds Keep Nothing in Their Bones Unsent Defense Cutting Nature at the Joint Come Fetch The Secret Nancy • Acknowledgements • About the Author

• Title Page

• Copyright

• Dedication

1 Ex Machina

Divine and Mechanical Bodies

The Case of the Double Jinx

Understudy

Possible and Impossible Sentences

Little, Red

Girl-Terrarium

Lucy in Chrysalis

Big Valley’s Last Surviving Beauty Queen

Cinderella Story

Before the Catalog of Boats

Why the McKean County Lifeguards Left Town

Paper Anniversary

A Theory of Disaster

2 My Girlhood Apothecary

Genealogy

Family Portrait with Rosary and Steak Knife

Genealogy

Portrait of my Father as a Young Man with a Bludgeon

In Language School My Father Learns to Pass for Dutch

My Father Flying Home From War, 1975

Genealogy

Games

Lent

3 Our Wilderness Period

Before and After, Botched

Still Life with Mannequin and Leg of Lamb

Fire Plan

Frontier Thesis

Rabbit Starvation

Inventing the Body

4 Bad Magic

We Won’t Make it to the Talkies

Vigil

Friendly Letter

Horses Dream of Horses

All Good Girls Deserve

Fervent Missive

Revisionist Love Story

Birds Keep Nothing in Their Bones

Unsent Defense

Cutting Nature at the Joint

Come Fetch

The Secret Nancy

• Acknowledgements

• About the Author

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