Extinction Events
Stories
Published on 1. September 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
138 pages
978-1-4962-1562-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
"In Breazeale's world a climatologist anticipates the destruction of Kiribati, her island home: 'We won't let ourselves be eroded. You can't disappear us.' These stories pit our most intimate aspirations against cosmic extinctions-truly spellbinding, essential stories of our time."-Wendell Mayo, author of Survival House"Extinction Events is a book for our times. Against the backdrop of environmental cataclysms past and future, the stories here bring to life the fractured worlds of artists and scientists, hucksters and hypnotists, all searching for those relationships that can connect and sustain us."-Lawrence Coates, author of Camp Olvido
"With a bold contemporary relevance, this collection captures the giddy wonder inside our panic. . . . Liz Breazeale stands her characters in the dusty history of the Chicxulub crater as they recite the poetry of humanity's everyday aches, the breath of the dinosaurs on their necks. In the face of a mandatory evacuation, one is tempted to batten down the hatches and curl up with this marvel of a book."-Jennifer Murvin, graphic narrative editor of Moon City Review
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Lincoln
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
181 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4962-1562-8 (9781496215628)
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E-Book
09/2019
1st Edition
University of Nebraska Press
€18.49
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09/2019
1st Edition
University of Nebraska Press
€21.99
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Person
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.
Content
Acknowledgements
Un-Discovered Islands
Four Self-Portraits of the Mapmaker
Survival in the Plague Years
The Lemurians
Extinction Events Proposed by My Father
The Disaster Preparedness Guidebook
How Cities Are Lost
Devil's Tooth Museum
The Supernova of Irvin Edwards
Ashcake
Experiencers
Un-Discovered Islands
Four Self-Portraits of the Mapmaker
Survival in the Plague Years
The Lemurians
Extinction Events Proposed by My Father
The Disaster Preparedness Guidebook
How Cities Are Lost
Devil's Tooth Museum
The Supernova of Irvin Edwards
Ashcake
Experiencers