A Catalogue of Everything in the World

by Yelizaveta P. Renfro

Overview

These linked short stories, all set in Nebraska, feature a range of characters: a bus driver mourning the death of his infant, an octogenarian preparing for death, a girl trying to cope with her parents' divorce, and a woman whose obsession with a decades-old crime has taken over her life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780983794530
Publisher:	Dzanc Books
Publication date:	05/17/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	180
File size:	362 KB

About the Author

Yelizaveta P. Renfro: Yelizaveta P. Renfro was born in the former Soviet Union to a Russian mother and American father, and previously lived in Russia, California, and Virginia. Her short story collection, A Catalogue of Everything in the World, the 2008 St. Lawrence Book Award winner, is set in and inspired by the American Midwest. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Glimmer Train Stories, North American Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Witness, Blue Mesa Review, So to Speak, the anthology A Stranger Among Us: Stories of Cross Cultural Collision and Connection (University of Illinois Press/OV Books, 2008), and elsewhere. Her awards include Glimmer Train Fiction Open second place, So to Speak Fiction Contest first place, the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award, and a Pushcart Prize nomination. She earned a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of California and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from George Mason University. She is completing her Ph.D. in English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Table of Contents

Splendid, Silent Sun 9

Tree Roots 36

A Catalogue of Everything in the World 50

Curator 75

Kidnapping Walta 101

The Memory of Water 111

Lenten Rose 137

Panhandlers 151