Looking for the Light

<p><strong><u>Praise for </u><em><u>Looking for the Light</u></em><u>:</u></strong></p><p></p><p><em>I have now read over a hundred stories by this talented writer and have yet to find myself not looking forward to his next. Amidst Desaulnier's wide spectrum of stories are a few related to his time as an aspiring bullfighter. This latest volume includes one of my favorites Tienta. Rousing applause for </em>Looking for the Light<em>. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>-Dan Armstrong</strong> author of the novels <em>Blake College</em> <em>Quicksand</em> and <em>Princeton Charlie's Got the Bules</em></p><p></p><p></p><p><em>In these stories we experience narrative innovation. Connections among friends and lovers the reaching out from one to another occur in such a way that dramatic conclusions rest with the reader beyond the last words of the stories. Read and enjoy them and the points will emerge clearly. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>-Richard Lyons</strong> author of novels <em>The Edge of Things</em> <em>Divisible by One</em> and the collection of stories <em>A Wilderness of Love and Faith</em></p><p></p><p></p><p><em>This new collection of stories by Russ Desaulnier knocked me out. The author leads you down a path and just when you get comfortable the ground drifts and a new reality emerges over and over again. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>-Jerry Rust</strong> author of the novels <em>Yew</em> and <em>The Covered Bridge Murders</em></p><p></p><p></p><p><em>These stories refract human experience with great insight and skill: family courage humiliation secrets confronting and reorienting oneself to the past willing a change to life's trajectory encounters with the dying. Desaulnier has a knack for subtly illuminating the manifold spectra of love. </em></p><p></p><p><strong>-Ross West</strong> author of <em>The Fragile Blue Dot: Stories from Our Imperiled Biosphere</em></p>