Stories about artists, lovers, brothers and strangers probe love, loss, and the family ties that bind people
Daniel Griffin’s debut collection of short stories, “Stopping for Strangers”, covers birth, death and all the big moments in between. Dark and yet uplifting, his stories take us to the heart of what matters in the tangled lives of people on the edge of crisis. The stories are about family and family relationships—topics Daniel loves to write about. “They’re the closest people to us in the world,” he told the Victoria Times Colonist.
The Vancouver Island author’s stories were written over the course of a decade, an hour or two a day. He describes himself as a late bloomer, overcoming dyslexia and slowly learning to read and write during childhood years. “I had no idea what was going on (in school)”, he says. His current work has received numerous favourable reviews.
We speak with Daniel Griffin.
