With some fanfare it should be announced that Christian Petersen's collection Let The Day Perish, whose title doesn't quite fit the book's content, is a first book that means we've got a fine author on our horizon. Mostly his fictions are set in up-country locales that Petersen has digested through deep experience and perhaps through chewing it over with mentors Jack Hodgins and Steven Heighton. It was for me one of the best evening's reads that came out of my box of books.

[Robert Harlow / BCBW 2000]