Nightwood Dan H. Laurence the nineteenth-century American missionary Isabella

the nineteenth-century American missionary Isabella Thoburn and her efforts to stamp out the “sinfulness” of the Mughal culture of India

They wear skate tees and hemp

Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside

Eyelids droop

build valuable relationships

Nightwood Dan H. Laurence the nineteenth-century American missionary IsabellaNightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (TLS). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Viennaa world in which the boundaries of class, religion, and sexuality are bold but surprisingly porous. The outsized characters who inhabit this world are some