Missing Persons

by Carole Giangrande

In her first collection of short fiction, Giangrande explores the lives of people who inhabit the broken terrain of the late twentieth century. A man saves memory from the blur of media events by finding a tool more potent than television...an Ontario farmer reaps a strange harvest in the garden of a Lebanese exile...a photographer uses her creative eye to unravel the mystery of a missing friend...an antiwar march pushes a woman into the life of her beloved twin destroyed by Vietnam...Faced with the disappearance of homeland, memory and innocence, these short stories powerfully explore interpretive material for life's dance.

144 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1994

About the author

I'm the author of four novels - The Tender Birds (2019), All That is Solid Melts into Air (2017), winner of the 2018 Independent Publishers Gold Medal for Literary Fiction (both published by Inanna), A Forest Burning (2000) and An Ordinary Star (2004), both published by Cormorant Books, along with a short story collection, Missing Persons (1994). My novellas include A Gardener on the Moon (Quattro, 2010), winner of the Ken Klonsky Award; Midsummer (2014) and Here Comes The Dreamer (2015) both published by Inanna. I also write essays and poetry; my essay "Goshawk" won a Lyric Essay Award in July 2016 and was published in Eastern Iowa Review, and another essay, "Death of a Red-Tailed Hawk," appeared in EcoTheo Review (Oct. 2018) and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. My first chidren's book, Do I Have To Go To Sleep? has just been published by Penumbra Books. Born and raised in the New York City area, I now live in Toronto, where I enjoy books, birding, photography and improving my French conversation.