Duplex

Acknowledgments

Thank you to the Bogliasco Foundation and the Lannan Foundation for their support.

“Descent of the Aquanauts” appeared in Conjunctions.

“The Four Horsewomen” appeared in Mischief and Mayhem.

“The Rain of Beads” appeared in Little Star.

“Through the Wormhole” appeared in New England Review.

A very different version of “Body-without-Soul” appeared in My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me, edited by Kate Bernheimer (Penguin, 2010).

A part of “Yellow Bear” appeared in Significant Objects, edited by Joshua Glenn (Fantagraphics, 2012).

I also want to thank Louise Glück for her help with the manuscript.

The novel is haunted by the ghosts of Sappho, Mopsa the Fairy, and “The New Mother.”