The critical and popular success (New York Times bestseller) that won a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship
and launched Canin's career, Emperor of the Air explores tricky family relationships and tender moments of self-discovery
with a voice of compassion rarely found in contemporary short fiction" (San Francisco Chronicle). As People
magazine commented, "Like a spider's web, this collection of spare, precise short stories is cleverly alluring
and deceptively strong."