Faithful and Other Stories (138) (Essential Prose Series)

A boy finds a vocation as a weaver of bread. A Russian woman, thought dead, e-mails greetings to her adolescent sister in a Canadian suburb. An investment banker vanishes and is found fifteen years later when his daughter discovers a painting of herself in a distant gallery. With wit and ache, Daniel Karasik's Faithful and Other Stories evokes a world of seekers, characters panning for meaning in environments by turns hostile, mystifying, and enchanted. This collection brings together stories honoured with the CBC Short Story Prize, The Malahat Review's Jack Hodgins Founders' Award for Fiction, and the Alta Lind Cook Prize. A fiction writer in the tradition of Michael Chabon, Philip Roth, and David Gilmour, in Faithful and Other Stories, Daniel Karasik brings together an assortment of complex characters searching for meaning and connection in a world that is by turns violent and indifferent. These award-winning stories have received the CBC Short Story Prize, the Malahat Reviews Jack Hodgins Founders Award for Fiction, the Alta Lind Cook Prize, and the Norma Epstein National Literary Award, and have appeared in such magazines as the North American Review, the Malahat Review, and Air Canadas enRoute magazine. "In Faithful and Other Stories Daniel Karasik brings together an assortment of complex characters searching for meaning and connection in a world that is by turns violent and indifferent. These award-winning stories have received the CBC Short Story Prize, The Malahat Review's Jack Hodgins Founders' Award for Fiction, the Alta Lind Cook Prize, and the Norma Epstein National Literary Award, and have appeared in such magazines as The North American Review, The Malahat Review, and Air Canada's EnRoute Magazine."-- Provided by publisher