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A father finds an unlikely sign of rebirth while mourning his son's sudden death. A Latino community's hopes and dreams are revealed in letters to the saints. A Buddhist zoo animal keeper finds his life altered by his city's political machine. A Christian woman living with cancer and her imprisoned Muslim son search for their own ways to go on.These stories and the twenty others included in this book offer rich rewards to all who have struggled with questions of meaning in their own lives. Including fiction from both widely celebrated and up-and-coming writers, this volume illuminates questions of life and death, doubt and faith, God and evil from a variety of ethnic (EuroAmerican, African-American, Asian-American, Native American) and faith (Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist, Native American) perspectives. The result is a sometimes disturbing, often reassuring, always powerful book.