Notes:
"Portions of part one first appeared, in different form, in Common Knowledge, volume 16, issue 1, Winter 2010 (Duke University Press)"--Colophon.
The newly orphaned daughter of a glassblower recounts the circumstances of her abandonment and her parents' strained marriage in Victorian England, marked by her father's efforts to render previously unseen sea creatures in glass.
Contents:
Voyage of the Narcissus --
The birdcage --
The glass ocean --
On a winter night a traveler.