***TAKING THE STAIRS....MORE INFO... HERE*** 

PRAISE:

"From beginning to end - from teenage adoration for Lana Banana,
to traumatic talent contests, penniless days spent in bed, low-paid
jobs, rejection slips, phone calls, film scripts and short stories - it is
horny, abject, real, funny and grand."

—Annie Freud, Author of Best Man That Ever Was (Picador)
Winner of the Glen Dimplex New Writing Award, 2008

“Taking the Stairs is subtle,
desperation-laced with bits of
hope that compel it forward with
improbable force. It’s Stiles’ best,
and a winner by all accounts.”

—Corb Lund,
Juno award-winning cowboy poet

"It is a novel by someone who still knows the
power of small town secrets."

—Ithaca Times, New York