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In Lisa Moore's first story collection, the joys and distresses of love course through modern-day Newfoundland like an electric current. These bright, engaging tales mark precious moments in the characters' lives against deceptively prosaic settings - a hospital cafeteria lit only by the lights in the snack machines, a half-built house "like a rib cage around a lungful of sky" - and the results linger long in the memory. In "Nipple of Paradise," Moore jumps back and forth in time between the birth of a child and a mother's unraveling marriage. "Wisdom Teeth" uses short, startling vignettes to weave together the story of a young woman. With lovingly constructed sentences and lush prose, Moore shows readers that love, alongside desire, can sometimes come softly, and sometimes as an ambush.

Lisa Moore, author of Degrees of Nakedness, lives in St. John's, Newfoundland. She has won first prize from the Writer's Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Newfoundland Arts and Letters Competition, and has a BA from the Nova Scotia College of Arts and Design. Her stories have been published in magazines across the country, including Prism, Event, Canadian Fiction Magazine, Tickleace, and The New Quarterly, and have been featured on CBC Radio, in Extremities: Stories from the Burning Rock, and Coming Attractions 1994 (Oberon).