Advance praise

"In each story, the intensity builds as day-to-day life is rapidly unfurled to reveal the longings and aches that stir within the characters. The vividly evoked settings pit the characters against their environments as much as each other and themselves. Each story inserts the reader into the midst of a new microcosm, which is often on the verge of disaster. The portrayal is hard-edged, almost cynical, but life-affirming, with humour and an eye for the amusingly absurd. Foy has crafted a collection that reminds us why, despite the tiring tribulations of life, we want more of it."

—Thomas Abray, Pollen

"The stories in Michael Foy's new pyrotechnic collection Driving Crazy to the Front Door cast an unsettling afterglow. Long after I put the book down, I found myself returning to it, wondering: How did we get here? How do we get out? What comes next? A longing threads through each story—for a moment, a place, or for someone perhaps now long gone, or who may never have been."

—Mark McGuire, Clay Footed Giants

Part of the wonder of Foy’s deeply sonorous writing is how his characters, story after story, learn to let go of the worst of their own very human crazy-making, quietly forgive themselves and each other, then carry on from there with what’s left...much as we all must do. Whole lives spill out of his everyday people like Granville Island Pale Ale out of full cups at a raucous hockey game. There’s no containing them in Driving Crazy to the Front Door. Where and when their stories end remind us the only thing we’re called to do is listen, or in this case read, with compassion.

—Robert Edison Sandiford, And Sometimes They Fly