"Ten stories cut like gems from American family life . . . [with] a
gracious patina and a drawl of violence." --Los Angeles Times
"A writer of the first rank. . . . [Knight] writes gently and with
great gobs of empathy."--Esquire
"Wonderfully humane." --Playboy
A Los Angeles Times Notable Book, Michael Knight's stunning debut
delivers ten tales of ordinary people seized by extraordinary
circumstances as their attempts at human connection result in
frustrating false starts and ruinous misunderstandings. Knight expertly
unveils fragile family ties, secret compulsions, and the nagging
doggedness of love as he taps into our collective human experience to
remind us, with unerring, piercing insight, of what it means to be
alive. By turns unpredictable and wise, sorrowful and triumphant,
Dogfight and Other Stories reveals the transformative power of life's
small struggles.