Dedication

For my mother’s sister, Carolyn Matulef,

and my father’s sister, Elizabeth Wrede McCracken

Epigraph

Map of Itself

The idea of travel. The very idea.

—BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY, THE OCTOPUS MUSEUM

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

The Irish Wedding

Proof

It’s Not You

A Splinter

Mistress Mickle All at Sea

Birdsong from the Radio

The Get-Go

Robinson Crusoe at the Waterpark

A Walk-Through Human Heart

Two Sad Clowns

The Souvenir Museum

Nothing, Darling, Only Darling, Darling

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Also by Elizabeth McCracken

Copyright

About the Publisher