Waiting for the Piano Tuner To Die

*Shortlisted for the 2002 Saskatchewan Book Award for Fiction

The men, women, and children in these stories make their own sense of a world where “there are forces at play so simple, natural, and accidental that nobody can figure them out and see them coming.”

It is a world in which there is more sorrow than joy. Sometimes this sorrow is heartbreaking, occasionally it is horrific, but the reader is constantly reminded through the quiet and mischievous irony of Richards’ voice that in this world – and in the least likely places – we may unknowingly entertain angels.