Recapture

A Library Journal Best Short Story Collection of the Year Unsentimental stories that tell us what the American West looks like now and what we’ve lost. –LIBRARY JOURNAL

The Utah Canyons WildMall gives tourists exactly what they want. An archivist preserves a rare map of a vanished Lake Tahoe. The Grand Canyon can only be visited in replica form. These stories–lyrical, deadpan, surreal–blur the line between the natural world and the world we make.
ERICA OLSEN lives in the Four Corners area, where she does archives and curation work for archaeology museums. A graduate of Stanford, Harvard, and the University of Montana MFA program, she has also been a Djerassi Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin. Her short fiction has appeared in ZYZZYVA, High Desert Journal, and other publications, and her nonfiction pieces in magazines including Fine Books & Collections and High Country News. Her work has received awards including the 2011 Barthelme Prize for Short Prose (for Grand Canyon II, included in Recapture).