The Sons of Noah and Other Stories

Jack Cady's collection of short fiction, published by Seattle's Broken Moon Press in 1992, blends magical realism and horror to explore the old wounds a culture carries, in stories whose reach stretches from the biblical deluge to Vietnam. The title story centers on an isolated, deeply religious community living close to the land, until something like Old Testament wrath breaks into their world. Other pieces, including "Now We Are Fifty," "Resurrection" and "Tinker," follow ordinary people as they meet grief, memory and the strange, told in plain and carefully observed prose. Cady, whose varied working life included stints as a truck driver and an auctioneer, won the 1993 World Fantasy Award for best collection with this book.