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Detailing the lives of artists, lovers, brothers, and strangers, this collection of stories acutely probes love and loss, men and women together, and the family ties that bind. A father renews an old artistic rivalry with his dying son; a raucous family gathering ends in tragedy; a quick stop to pick up a hitchhiker begins a chain of events that changes a man’s life.
Dark yet uplifting, these tales journey to the heart of what matters in the tangled lives of people on the edge of crisis.
"It only takes a page or two to conclude that Daniel Griffin values precision – a precision not of meticulous detail, but of economy, of the extraneous shorn away until a vital core is reached: a core of character, of an exchange of words, of a scene, a story. He gets, as many a new writer does not, that the less an author says, the more the reader can enter, must enter, the process of imagining. Rather than being told what is, you collaborate in its discovery." - The Globe & Mail, Jim Bartley
“Stopping for Strangers is the finest debut collection of short fiction I have read since Alexander MacLeod’s Light Lifting in 2010: My praise doesn’t get any higher than that.” - Victoria Times-Colonist (Canada), Robert Wiersema
"His [Griffin's] characters are memorable ones, their dilemmas familiar, their judgments and actions not always for the best. Mr. Griffin’s writing deserves a wide audience." - The Globe and Mail, Tom Hawthorne
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Daniel Griffin is originally from Kingston Ontario, but has lived in Guatemala, New Zealand, England, Scotland, France, India and the US. He currently makes his home in Victoria, BC with his wife Kimberly and their daughters Evelyn, Tessa and Vivian.
His short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and journals across North America, have twice been selected for the Journey Prize anthology and were collected in the 2008 edition of Coming Attractions.
Visit him at danielgriffin.ca
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