Project Description
Pushcart Prize 2007Peter Grandbois
USA
Peter Grandbois is a professor of creative writing and contemporary literature at Denison University in Ohio. His short fiction has appeared in numerous renowned magazines and received an honorable mention for the 2007 Pushcart Prize. Visit the author’s website: > brothersgrandbois.com
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Nahoonkara
Set in nineteenth-century Wisconsin and Colorado, Nahoonkara follows the lives of three brothers striving to re-create themselves. While Killian takes care of his sick mother and Eli flees after a conflict with his father, Henry founds a prospering mining town. Featuring differing points of view and beautiful poetic language, this outstanding novel reveals what happens when individual identity collapses.
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The Gravedigger
Peter Grandbois’ poignant debut The Gravedigger is written in the best Latin American tradition. Juan Rodrigo is haunted by the people he buries in his tiny Andalusian village, feeling compelled to pass along their stories. But the truths he reveals don’t always go over well among the surviving. Then his teenage daughter Esperanza falls in love with a gypsy boy, and fate stops at his own doorstep…
RIGHTS
NOVELS
The Gravedigger
San Francisco: Chronicle Books 2006, pb 2007, 255 p.
Film rights under option
Poland: Muza 2008
The Arsenic Lobster. A Hybrid Memoir
New York: Spuyten Duyvil 2009, 129 p.
Nahoonkara
Pennsylvania: Etruscan Press 2011, 161 p.
SHORT STORIES
Wait your turn and The stability of large systems
Wordcraft series of fabulist novellas
Oregon: La Grande 2014, 115 p.
The glob who girdled Granville and The secret lives of actors
Wordcraft series of fabulist novellas
Oregon: La Grande 2014, 122 p.
The girl on the swing and At night in crumbling voices
Wordcraft series of fabulist novellas
Oregon: La Grande 2015, 144 p.
Domestic Disturbances
Boulder: Subito Press 2013, 96 p.
Finalist in ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year awards for 2013
