Envisioned as a "nocturne," Steve Amick's playful, multilayered novel expansively retells Eugene Field's famed verse "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod." In the fishing village of Scheveningen in 1889, three men build and secretly launch an unorthodox fishing vessel, departing from the long tradition of netting herring using massive boats and large crews. Collaborating in this venture are Wyn van Winkel, a cavalier joker and opium addict currently...