The Redemption of Galen Pike Author:Carys Davies "Like Chekhov's great stories, Davies' . . . reward re-reading not by resolving the core mystery, but by revealing layers of meaning and complexity. " ?Ladette Randolph, PloughsharesFrom remote Australian settlements to the snows of Siberia, from Colorado to Cumbria, restless teenagers, middle-aged civil servants, and Quaker spinsters traverse e... more »xpanses of solitude to reveal the secrets of the human heart.Written with raw and rigorous prose, charged throughout by a prickly wit, the stories in The Redemption of Galen Pike remind us how little we know of the lives of others.Carys Davies is currently a 2016-2017 Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library.« less