Something for Everyone

Winner, Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award
Winner, Alistair MacLeod Prize for Short Fiction
Longlisted, Scotiabank Giller Prize

“Lisa Moore’s work is passionate, gritty, lucid, and beautiful. She has a great gift.” ― Anne Enright, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The Gathering

Internationally celebrated as one of literature’s most gifted stylists, Lisa Moore returns with her second story collection, a soaring chorus of voices, dreams, loves, and lives. Taking us from the Fjord of Eternity to the streets of St. John’s and the swamps of Orlando, these stories show us the timeless, the tragic, and the miraculous hidden in the underbelly of our everyday lives. A missing rock god may have jumped a cruise ship ― in the Arctic. A grieving young woman may live next to a serial rapist. A man’s last day on Earth replays in the minds of others in a furiously sensual, heartrending fugue. Something for Everyone is Moore at the peak of her prowess ― she seems bent on nothing less than rewiring the circuitry of the short story itself.

Lisa Moore is the acclaimed author of the novels Caught, February, and Alligator. Caught was a finalist for many significant Canadian awards and is now a major CBC television series starring Allan Hawco. February won CBCs Canada Reads competition, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and was named a New Yorker Best Book of the Year. Alligator was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and won the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Canada and the Caribbean), and was a national bestseller. Her story collection Open was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and a national bestseller. She lives in St. Johns, Newfoundland.