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Open and Alligator were both nominated for the Giller Prize. Alligator won the Commonwealth Prize for the Canadian Caribbean Region and the ReLit Award, and Open won the Canadian Authors' Association Jubilee Prize for Short Fiction.

Lisa has also written for television, radio, magazines (EnRoute, The Walrus and Chatelaine) and newspapers (The Globe and Mail and The National Post).

Lisa has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She also studied at Memorial University of Newfoundland, where she became a member of The Burning Rock Collective, a group of St. John's writers.
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In her external life, Helen O'Mara cleans and does yoga and looks after her grandchildren and shakes hands with solitude. In her internal life, she continually revisits Cal. Then, one night she gets a phone call: her son John is coming home. He has made a girl pregnant after a brief, sex-filled week in Iceland. As John grapples with what it might mean to be a father, Helen comes to terms with her need to remember the dead.

Writing at the peak of her form, her steadfast refusal to sentimentalize coupled with an almost shocking ability to render the precise details of her characters' physical and emotional worlds, Lisa Moore gives us her strongest work yet. Here is a novel about complex love and cauterizing grief, about past and present and how memory knits them together, about a fiercely close community and its universal struggles, and finally about our need to imagine a future, no matter how fragile. A profound, gorgeous, heart-stopping work from one of our best writers. ]]> 45886 3.45 203 44 2009 498084 088784684X 9780887846847 6 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175263181m/498084.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175263181s/498084.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/498084.Open 3.70 30 Open cover these moments, familiar territory in the hands of most writers, in unfamiliar ways. The interconnectedness of a bus ride in Nepal and a wedding on the shore of Quidi Vidi Lake; the tension between a husband and wife when their infant cries before dawn (who will go to him?) and the husband's wrenching memory of an early love affair; two friends, one who suffers early in life and the other midway through - these are some of the subjects Lisa Moore treats with her incomparable style. Drawing on vivid landscapes both interior and exterior, Moore splices together the sudden shocks and subtle realizations that enter her characters' lives, using the piercing imagery and soulful technique that have won her acclaim from critics and her many fans.</div>]]> 45886 3.45 203 44 2002 498087 0887847021 9780887847028 2 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175263183m/498087.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175263183s/498087.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/498087.Degrees_of_Nakedness 4.36 11 45886 3.45 203 44 2005 1235313 0670065528 9780670065523 3 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182134218m/1235313.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182134218s/1235313.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1235313.Penguin_Book_Of_Contemporary_Short_Stories_By_Canadian_Women 4.29 7 45886 3.45 203 44 2006 7019431 0814795625 9780814795620 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/70/431/7019431-m-1256104612.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/books/70/431/7019431-s-1256104612.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7019431-sperm-counts 0.0 0 45886 3.45 203 44 2008 3851550 0973850191 9780973850192 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3851550.Human_Natured_Newfoundland_Nudes 0.0 0 45886 3.45 203 44 2007 1235320 2764603576 9782764603574 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182134240m/1235320.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182134240s/1235320.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1235320.Chambres_nuptiales 0.0 0 45886 3.45 203 44 2005 504669 0153234814 9780153234811 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/504669.Full_count 0.0 0 45886 3.45 203 44 2002 504668 0153234695 9780153234699 0 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/504668.Thunder_lake 0.0 0 45886 3.45 203 44 2002