Extinction Events: Stories (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction)

Breazeale, Liz

ISBN 10: 1496215621 / ISBN 13: 9781496215628

Published by University of Nebraska Press, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Extinction Events: Stories (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction)
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1496215621
• ISBN 13: 9781496215628
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In this collection of short stories, Liz Breazeale explores the connections between humans and the natural world by examining the processes and history of our planet. A myriad of extinction events large and small have ruptured the history of the earth, and so it is with the women of this book, who struggle to define themselves amid their own personal cataclysms and those igniting the world around them. They are a mother watching the islands of the world disappear one by one, a new bride using alien abduction to get closer to her estranged parent, a daughter searching for her mother among the lost cities of the world, a sister trying and failing to protect her mythical continent–obsessed brother.

Here extinction events come in all sizes and shapes: as volcanic eruptions and devastating plagues and meteor impacts, as estrangements and betrayals and losses. Dark, angry, and apocalyptic, Extinction Events is a compendium of all the ways in which life can be annihilated.
 
 

About the Author

Liz Breazeale is a technical communications editor for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. Her stories have appeared in numerous publications, including Pleiades, Sou’wester, Territory, Arroyo Literary Review, and Fence.