Faithful and Other Stories
by Daniel Karasik
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Pub Date Oct 01 2017 | Archive Date Nov 29 2017
Description
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.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781771831680 |
| PRICE | $20.00 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Meghan Rose A, Reviewer
I am always jealous when (Canadian) people win prizes for short stories, especially prizes to which I *may* have submitted. Sigh. I can't even rightly be jealous because it isn't like the stories in <A href="https://www.librarything.com/work/20552720/book/160889709">Faithful</a> are bad. They are competent. Okay, they are more than competent. I can't say that any of them will suddenly become my favourite short story in the world (Shout out to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guests_of_the_Nation">Guests of the Nation</a>), and a few of the stories needed a bit more oomph (<i>An Old Friend</i> ends so quickly and not being a middle-aged, cheating man, I had trouble connecting with some of the motivations of Jake in the titular <i>Faithful</i>), but there's a story about someone who realizes they're never going to write a novel (<i>Witness</i>). I know that feeling (although I have written a <a href="https://www.dcbyoungreaders.com/enid-strange">novel</a>); I <b>know</b> that feeling like I know my own skin.
<A href="https://www.librarything.com/work/20552720/book/160889709">Faithful</a> are short stories that make me yearn to write short stories again.
Now if only I could come up with an idea (or maybe I'll steal some of Karasik's and make them my own; who knows).
<A href="https://www.librarything.com/work/20552720/book/160889709">Faithful</a> by Daniel Karasik went on sale October 1, 2017.
<small>I received a copy free from <a href="https://www.netgalley.com/">Netgalley</a> in exchange for an honest review.</small>
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General Fiction (Adult), Literary Fiction, Women's Fiction
