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Stopping for Strangers is on the Short List for the Danuta Gleed award and on the Long list for the Frank O’Connor Award.

TOUR DATES:
Daniel Griffin is reading from Stopping for Strangers in Ontario and Quebec in May (see below for details)

“This fine fine collection evokes echoes of the plain and piercing voice of Raymond Carver. These stories upended me: they are strong, surprising and full of heart. The size of the soul looms large in Daniel Griffin’s writing.”

— David Bergen, Giller Prize winning author of The Time in Between

“Griffin’s at his best when he explores the intricacies and heartaches of family relationship and crisis. Here, in Stopping for Strangers, I believe we’re witnessing the emergence of a future master. ”

—Gail Anderson-Dargatz, best selling author of The Cure for Death by Lightning

“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”

—Jim Bartley, Review in The Globe and Mail

“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.”

—Robert Wiersema in the Victoria Times-Colonist

“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.”

—Tom Hawthorne in The Globe and Mail