Deeply rooted in settings such as New Orleans, Montreal, and rural Canada, these stories thoughtfully examine characters and worlds fraught with obsession, isolation, longing, and loneliness. With the sense and scope of Wendell Berry and Ron Rash, Michael Caleb Tasker's haunting All Gone Now examines lives touched by absent parents, escaped convicts, and looming hurricanes in slowly changing worlds, peopled with beaten souls that refuse erosion.
About the Author :
Michael Caleb Tasker won the 2019 Saturday Evening Post Great American Fiction Contest and has been published in Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, The Southern Review, and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. He currently lives in Adelaide, Australia.
Review :
"These stories call to mind Ernest Hemingway, Carson McCullers, and Patricia Highsmith-but with a peculiar, moody magic that's all Tasker's own."
-Joanna Pearson, author of Bright and Tender Dark
"Brings to life the wounded and the lost, and the yearning within the human heart, with a tender attention to detail and a sublime grasp of character."
-Michael Sala, author of The Restorer
"A masterful and affecting collection that finds spooky beauty in trains and cafes, rodeos and circuses, in motel scotch and cigarette smoke . . . restless men and women linger at windows, with a sad gaze as in Hopper paintings, but this book is sad in the best way."
-Mark Anthony Jarman, author of Burn Man
