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Something for Everyone

Something for Everyone is a short story collection by Lisa Moore.

Lisa Moore

Internationally celebrated as one of literature's most gifted stylists, Lisa Moore returns with her third 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 Everyoneis Moore at the peak of her prowess she seems bent on nothing less than rewiring the circuitry of the short story itself. (From House of AnansiPress)

Something for Everyonewas on the longlist for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and won the$25,000 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the Alistair MacLeod Prize for short fiction at the 2019 Atlantic Book Awards.

From the book

Orlando, Florida. I'm here with a conference of twenty thousand librarians from all over North America, two weeks after the Pulse massacre. It's very early; I'm jogging around two big, olive-coloured ponds and not a breath of wind, an empty eight-lane highway between the ponds and I'm on the median.

A lizard skitters over the curb and across the highway. It goes in fast-forward but there are glitches. Stops. Goes, stops. Darts. A jellied quivering. The long thin body is still, but the legs. You can't even see the legs in the bald light. Just a blur of motion.


FromSomething for Everyoneby Lisa Moore2018. Published by House of AnansiPress.

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