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Reviews"… touching portrayals of lives beset by the ordinary slings and arrows, but centred on a community of faith. … Gresik's devout stories hover pleasingly between earth and heaven." "[Brick and Mortar is] An unusual and engaging collection that focuses with humour and compassion on a Presbyterian congregation-an old woman who frets when she can't get a weekly bulletin, a child who plays on the floor under the pew, admiring the whorls in the wooden seat, the baker who makes the communion bread." "In Brick and Mortar, Alison Gresik allows her fiction to follow the collective and disparate minds of a single faith community into both expected and unexpected corners of the church (and of her characters’ interior worlds). As a result, she kneads a nourishing mix of well-crafted, character driven fiction. Readers of faith will be challenged. Those seeking will be intrigued." "Contemporary Canadian authors have been criticized for producing novels with strong images but weak characters. However, in the tradition of Margaret Laurence, Brick and Mortar introduces us to flawed-but-fascinating human beings. … Gresik's eye for narrative detail and subtle use of biblical imagery press home a message that Christian readers will instantly recognize: our sin is great, but grace is irresistible."
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© 2003 Alison Gresik | e-mail: alison @ gresik.ca